Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Dany Laferrière
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JOURNALIST-WRITER
Haiti-Quebec
Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953 and emigrated to Quebec in 1976. He achieved success in Montreal in 1985 with the publication of his first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer, a best-seller translated into several languages and adapted for the screen by Jacques Benoît in 1989. Nine novels, among other works, would follow, constituting a cycle of novels the author calls an “American autobiography.” A journalist and television editorialist, Dany Laferrière also writes screenplays, in particular Goût des jeunes filles, which was directed by John L’Écuyer in 2004. He was admitted to the Académie Française in December 2013.
