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.
- 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)
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