An Evening of Francophone Literature (Free admission - No tickets required)

Friday, Nov. 13, 8:00 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)

Featuring novelists and poets: Josphat-Robert Large (Haiti); Leonora Miano (Cameroon); Abdellah Taia (Morocco); Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti); and Franz-Antoine Leconte (Haiti).

Author(s) and Guest(s)

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Louis-Philippe Dalembert began working as a journalist before leaving Haiti for France to earn a Ph.D in comparative literature. He has traveled widely in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, regions with figure in his poetry. His most famous books are Le crayon du Bon Dieu n’a pas de gomme and L’aure face a la mer, which received the RFO Prize.

Josaphat-Robert Large

Josaphat-Robert Large is a Haitian poet, playwright, novelist and art critic who writes in French and Haitian Creole. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes (Shore Surrounded with Tears) was awarded the Prix litteraire de Caraibes in 2003. He has been the subject of two symposiums by the Society of French and Francohone Teachers of America, one at Florida International University in 2001, and another at Fordham University in 2006. In French.

Franz-Antoine Leconte

Franz-Antoine Leconte, author of Josaphat-Robert Large: The Fragmentation of the Self (L’Harmattan), was born in Port-au-prince, Haiti. He studied at City University of New York and received his B.A, Master of Art (1980), Master of Philosophy (1985) and his Ph.D. in 1989. He is the French area coordinator of the Department of Foreign Languages at the City University of New York's Kingsborough campus.

Leonora Miano

Leonora Miano is the author of a three novels: L'intérieur de la nuit (The Dark Heart of the Night); Contours du jour qui vient; and Tels des astres éteints. She has won the Louis Guilloux Prize 2006; the Montalembert Prize 2006; the René Fallet Prize 2006; the Bernard Palissy Prize 2006; and the Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2006. The University of Nebraska Press will publish The Dark Heart of the Night, translated by Tamsin Black, in April 2010. In French.

Abdellah Taia

Abdellah Taia  (Morocco) is the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco. He is the author of Mon Maroc and Le rouge du tarbouche, both translated into Dutch and Spanish. He also appeared in Rémi Lange's 2004 film Tarik el Hob (released in English as The Road to Love).  His novel L’Armée du Salut was published earlier this year in England and the United States as Salvation Army (Semiotexte/Smart Art), translated by Frank Stockton, with an introduction by Edmund White. He lives in Paris. In French.

Schedule

Friday, Nov. 13, 8:00 p.m.

Free

Location

Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)