Miami Book Fair International
November 8 - 15, 2009 STREET FAIR: November 13 - 15
An Evening of Francophone Literature (Free admission - No tickets required)
Friday, Nov. 13, 8:00 p.m., Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
Featuring novelists and poets: Josphat-Robert Large (Haiti); Leonora Miano (Cameroon); Abdellah Taia (Morocco); Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti); and Franz-Antoine Leconte (Haiti).
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Louis-Philippe Dalembert began working as a journalist before leaving Haiti for France to earn a Ph.D in comparative literature.
He has traveled widely in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, regions with figure in his poetry.
His most famous books are Le crayon du Bon Dieu n’a pas de gomme and L’aure face a la mer, which received the RFO Prize.
Josaphat-Robert Large
Josaphat-Robert Large is a Haitian poet, playwright, novelist and art critic who writes in French and Haitian Creole.
His novel Les terres entourees de larmes (Shore Surrounded with Tears) was awarded the Prix litteraire de Caraibes in 2003. He has been the subject of two symposiums by the Society of French and Francohone Teachers of America, one at Florida International University in 2001, and another at Fordham University in 2006. In French.
Franz-Antoine Leconte
Franz-Antoine Leconte, author of Josaphat-Robert Large: The Fragmentation of the Self (L’Harmattan), was born in Port-au-prince, Haiti.
He studied at City University of New York and received his B.A, Master of Art (1980), Master of Philosophy (1985) and his Ph.D. in 1989. He is the French area coordinator of the Department of Foreign Languages at the City University of New York's Kingsborough campus.
Leonora Miano
Leonora Miano is the author of a three novels: L'interieur de la nuit (The Dark Heart of the Night); Contours du jour qui vient; and Tels des astres eteints.
She has won the Louis Guilloux Prize 2006; the Montalembert Prize 2006; the Rene Fallet Prize 2006; the Bernard Palissy Prize 2006; and the Prix Goncourt des lyceens 2006. The University of Nebraska Press will publish The Dark Heart of the Night, translated by Tamsin Black, in April 2010. In French.
Abdellah Taia
Abdellah Taia (Morocco) is the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco.
He is the author of Mon Maroc and Le rouge du tarbouche, both translated into Dutch and Spanish.
He also appeared in Remi Lange's 2004 film Tarik el Hob (released in English as The Road to Love).
His novel L’Armee du Salut was published earlier this year in England and the United States as Salvation Army (Semiotexte/Smart Art), translated by Frank Stockton, with an introduction by Edmund White.
He lives in Paris.
In French.
Schedule
Friday, Nov. 13, 8:00 p.m. Free
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 3208/3209 (Building 3, 2nd Floor)
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