12/12/2013- Paris, France - The Canadian-Haitian writer Dany Laferrière was elected Thursday to the French Academy. It is the first Haitian to make its entry into this prestigious academy. He was elected in the first round in Paris, by the members of the famous institution, vibznation.com has learned.
The author of "How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired" occupy the number two chair, once devoted to Montesquieu and later, Alexandre Dumas son and vacated by Hector Bianciotti and, at 60, becomes the youngest member to sit under the dome.
Founded by Cardinal Richelieu there 378 years, the French Academy is composed of 40 members, the "immortals", elected for life by their peers, who are responsible for monitoring the French language and design the dictionary reference Now in its ninth edition.
Born in Port -au- Prince April 13, 1953 , Dany Laferrière, born Windsor Klébert Laferrière, is an intellectual, and Quebec writer of Haitian origin. His writing focuses on autobiographical style . He received the Prix Médicis in 2009 and the Grand Prix of Montreal Book for his novel "The Enigma of
Dany Laferriere elected to the French Academy
Return," which tells of the author's return to Haiti in the wake of the death of his father, exiled in the 1960s by Papa Doc's father, Jean- Claude Duvalier.
First journalist in Haiti, Dany Laferrière has left the country in 1974 and settled in Quebec after the assassination of a journalist friend by henchmen of dictator Jean- Claude Duvalier. His first novel, "How to make love to a negro without getting tired," published in 1985, was translated into many languages and adapted for the cinema.
Both novelist, poet, writer and filmmaker Dany Laferrière has published more than twenty books, including "The grenade in the hand of the young Negro is it a weapon or a fruit? "Prize RFO 2002," south "(2006), nominated the same year for the Renaudot Prize and also adapted to film.
