Évelyne Trouillot

Évelyne Trouillot
Born (1954-01-02) January 2, 1954 (age 71)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
OccupationFrench professor at Université d'Etat d'Haïti
LanguageFrench, English, Creole
NationalityHaitian
Children2

Évelyne Trouillot (born January 2, 1954) is a Haitian author, writing in French and Creole.[1]

Biography

Évelyne Trouillot was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 2, 1954. She was the daughter of Ernst Trouillot[2] and Anne-Marie Morisset.[3] After completing secondary school, she left for the United States, where she studied languages and education at the university level.

In 1987, Trouillot returned to Haiti,[1] where she teaches French at the State University.[4] In 2002, Évelyne, her daughter Nadève Ménard, and her brother Lyonel, founded Pré-Texte, a writer's organization that sponsors reading and writing workshops.[5][6]

Her brother Lyonel is also a writer; her sister Jocelyne is a writer and academic. Her brother Michel-Rolph was an anthropologist and academic. The Haitian historian Henock Trouillot was her uncle.[5]

Her work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, and Italian and has been published in magazines in Cuba, France, Mexico, and Canada.[1][7]

Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting called Rosalie l’infâme "A wonderful contribution to the corpus of Francophone women writers in the Caribbean".[8]

Awards and honours

In 2012, Trouillot received the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short fiction from the magazine The Caribbean Writer.

Selected works[1][9]

  • La chambre interdite, short story collection (1996)[10]
  • Sans parapluie de retour, poetry (2001)
  • Parlez-moi d’amour, stories (2002)
  • Rosalie l’infâme, novel (2003), received the Prix de la romancière francophone awarded by the Soroptimist Club of Grenoble, published in English as The Infamous Rosalie (2013)[4][11]
  • L'ile De Ti Jean, children's book (2003)[5][12]
  • Plidetwal, poetry (2005), in Creole
  • Le Bleu de l’île, play (2005), received the Prix Beaumarchais from the Ecritures Théâtrale Contemporaines en Caraïbe[7]
  • Le Mirador aux étoiles, novel (2007)
  • La mémoire aux abois, novel (2010), received the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, translated into English as Memory at Bay (2015)
  • La fille à la guitare / Yon fi, yon gita, yon vwa, children's literature (2012), in French and Creole
  • Absences sans frontières, novel (2013)
  • "Par la fissure de mes mots", poetry (2014)
  • Le Rond Point, novel (2015), received the Prix Barbancourt[7]
  • Je m'appelle Fridhomme, short stories, C3Editions, 2017
  • Désirée Congo, novel (2020), French Edition, September 24, 2020
  • Les Jumelles de la rue Nicolas, édition Project îles. (2022)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Évelyne Trouillot". ile en ile (in French).
  2. ^ "Inauguration du Centre culturel Anne-Marie Morisset". Le Nouvelliste. August 10, 2011.
  3. ^ Trouillot, Évelyne (2015). Memory at Bay. Paris: Éditions Hoëbeke. pp. 129–30. ISBN 978-0813938103.
  4. ^ a b "Évelyne Trouillot". Words without Borders.
  5. ^ a b c Danticat, Edwidge (Winter 2005). "Evelyne Trouillot". BOMB (90): 48–53. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  6. ^ "Lyonel Trouillot Ménard". www.encaribe.org. Archived from the original on June 27, 2017. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  7. ^ a b c "Évelyne Trouillot - Forum for Scholars and Publics - Duke University". fsp.trinity.duke.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  8. ^ "The Infamous Rosalie". University of Nebraska Press.
  9. ^ "Evelyne Trouillot". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  10. ^ "La Chambre Interdite". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  11. ^ "The Infamous Rosalie". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  12. ^ "L'ile De Ti Jean". Goodreads. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
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