The Grand Prix du Roman Métis 2011 was awarded this Tuesday to the Haitian poet and novelist Lyonel Trouillot for "La belle amour humaine" which depicts a Haitian (Thomas) and a young Western (Anaïse). The author engages a dialogue shifted between the two characters. Thomas describes to the young woman the complex powers of the living and the dead in his country. Anaïse wants to find traces of a father that she has barely knew and clarify the enigma which is the basis of her family story.

"This world produces malaise, that's what I'm talking in this book made of fragments of reality, especially on the predators who run Haiti and which leave nothing to the other" declares the author.

The Grand Prix du Roman Métis 2011 [established in 2010], is organized by the city of Saint-Denis de la Reunion and the association "la Réunion des Livres".

Learn more about Lyonel Trouillot :

Born in Port-au-Prince in 1956, where he still lives, Lyonel Trouillot left Haïti a few time to take refuge in the United States to escape the repression under Jean-Claude Duvalier in early 1980... but he never left the island forever. Lyonel Trouillot, fascinated by the literature from an early age, collaborated in various newspapers and magazines of Haiti and of the Diaspora in which he has published numerous poems and critical essays, he also wrote some texts of songs performed by Tambou Libète, Manno Charlemagne, Toto Bissainthe, Jean Coulanges and Atis Endepandan.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-4157-haiti-literature-the-goncourt-2011-not-for-haiti-this-year.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-4099-haiti-literature-the-writer-poet-lyonel-trouillot-finalist-for-the-goncourt-2011.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3759-haiti-culture-the-haitian-writer-lyonel-trouillot-in-first-selection-for-the-goncourt.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-3954-haiti-literature-lyonel-trouillot-in-the-semifinals-for-the-goncourt.html

S/ HaitiLibre