Yamile Stitt

Cindy Seip

Born in Port-au-Prince, Yamile Stitt studied abroad, in Europe and the United States. She returned to the islands for a while—Haiti and the Dominican Republic—but Florida has been “home” to her and her family for decades. Today, with her children grown and raising families of their own, she balances life as an interpreter and a writer. Writing has been her childhood dream and lifelong passion: “I was always an avid reader. My fondest childhood memories in Haiti take me back to blissful times of solitude with my favorite books. The summer of my eleventh birthday, with my special Parker fountain pen, I wrote my first ‘novel’ on a student notebook, full of ink stains and erasures.” A closet writer for years, with stacks of poems and short stories in her personal files, Yamile Stitt is the author of Memories in Technicolor, a coming-of-age novel set against the colorful backdrop of tumultuous and profound times on the world stage.

 

Yamilé Stitt est l’auteur du roman « Les Chemins de Lumière » (EducaVision, 2016) qui nous entraîne dans le sillage d’une adolescente qui découvre la vie et ses surprises à une époque où le monde se réinvente. D’Haïti, sous la dictature de François Duvalier, à la terre accueillante de France où elle séjourne en pension, pour aboutir aux Etats-Unis à l’ère de la guerre du Viêt-Nam et la contre-culture hippie, ce roman relate le parcours géographique, culturel, sentimental et spirituel d’une Haïtienne à la fin des années soixante. Dix ans plus tard, la jeune femme, née des cendres de l’adolescence, met le point final à son journal et son histoire… Sa vie vient de former un cercle parfait !