Haiti: A feast for the Haitian literature

The enigma of return" of Dany Laferrière is a novel deep, serious, tender, generous, from the heart. He was honored in France and Canada by several literary prizes. Laferriere told during the evening in his honor at the Ministry of Culture and Communication, this book, he saw emerge and flourish at his fingertips.
Haiti has reaped a harvest of literary prizes in 2009. Thirteen total awarded to our writers: Lyonel Trouillot, Yanick Lahens, Emmelie Prophet, Edwidge Danticat, Louis Philippe Dalembert, Dominique Batraville Guy Regis Junior to name a few.

The Ministry of Culture and Communication took the evening tribute to Dany Laferrière to greet last night, the Haitian writers whose works are others looking at us differently.

Haiti is not only a strange country with only damning new spread in the foreign press, he was also generous artists who explore the vein of imagination and transformed into literary gold various facets of Haitian reality .

"I am excited tonight. The whole world is forced to take another look at Haiti, our small and so great nation, "said Minister of Culture and Communication, Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, before a large audience gathered under tents erected in the Court Department. Diplomats, writers, fine art world attended the awards ceremony. It was moved, she said, because our writers revive hope in the hearts of the people and give reasons to believe. She praised the genius Laferrière who has created a major work whose "inspiration is fueled by their country of origin.

The latest novel Laferrière, "she recalled, has received several distinctions: price Medici, Grand Prix du Roman of the city of Montreal, Blue Metropolis, best novel by the French magazine Lire founded by Bernard Pivot.

Mrs. Lassègue praised Lyonel Trouillot (yanvalou for Charly) awarded the Prize Wepler; Yanick Lahens (The color of dawn), RFO price of the book; Emmelie Prophet (Testament of solitude), price Caribbean Literature.

A unanimous heart

"It all creators in all sectors working in the field of books that we dedicate this ceremony of homage," launched by the Minister to invite the author of "The enigma of return "shared a moment of reading punctuated with comments from the public. Indeed, Laferriere with his warm voice and gravely read excerpts from books by Lyonel Trouillot of Yanick Lahens, Prophet of Emelie and Cyto Cavé.

"I totally agree with the minister when she talks about heart unanimous when it said there was not a party for me, but it is a feast for the Haitian culture, in literature Haitian, "he acquiesced Dany Laferriere.

He wrote the texts of "The enigma of return" after a stay in Haiti. As a photographer, he captured the moments before an array of details. Writing is a craft dating and loneliness, Dany Laferriere will focus the work of this book, soon arrived in Montreal.

"I wrote the text, when I arrived in Montreal. I have not seen the details that readers will see, but I felt there was something like a living organism on the page. Something that moved and told me that something was happening, perhaps bigger than me. And that something, I'd say it was the people's hearts. "

This book written on the ground, the little son of Da was felt emerge and flourish at his fingertips, and coincidentally, was born "The enigma of return".

"I left Haiti at the age of twenty-three years and that makes thirty-three years I saw nothing more than a daily basis but as strange as that country inside me as if the twenty three years had converted into a sort of eternity and it is not possible to make a statement. It's strange to be here tonight to speak in such a condition, "said the writer honored publicly penetrated by its spirit. One would have thought, talked, he immediately wrote another novel.