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Dany Laferrière, novelist, essayist, poet, journalist (b at Port-au-Prince, Haiti 13 Apr 1953). Dany Laferrière worked as a journalist during the Duvalier regime, immigrating to Canada in 1978 after a colleague with whom he was collaborating on a story was murdered. He settled in Montréal, where he worked at a variety of low-paying jobs while writing his first novel, Comment fair l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (1985; tr How to Make Love to a Negro, 1987). A semi-autobiographical account of an impoverished black immigrant and his attraction to white women, the book was a critical and commercial success, and was later made into a feature film. Laferrière emigrated to the United States in 1990 and divides his time between Montréal and Miami.
Other novels were quick to follow: Éroshima (1987; tr 1991), L'Odeur du café (Prix de la Caraïbe, 1991; tr An Aroma of Coffee, 1993), and Le goût des jeunes filles (1992, published in English as Dining with the Dictator, 1995), Pays sans chapeau (1996, published in English as Down Among the Dead Men, 1997), La chair du maître (1997), Dans l'oeil du cyclone (1999), Le cri des oiseaux fous (2000), and Vers le sud (2006). He has also written a collection of poetry, Chronique de la dérive douce (1994; published in English as A Drifting Year, 1997), and a memoir, La Charme des après-midi sans fin (1997). A screenplay, Comment conquérir l'Amérique en une nuit, was published in 2004. Despite general praise for his writing, Laferrière's depictions of race relations, black culture and women have often drawn criticism. He defends his work in Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit? (1993; published in English as Why Must a Black Writer Write about Sex?, 1995), J'ecris comme je vis (2000) and Je suis fatigue (2000, rev 2005).
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