Marie Vieux-Chauvet author biography, plus links to books by Marie Vieux-Chauvet.

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Marie Vieux-Chauvet, a seminal writer of post-occupation Haiti, was born in Port-au-Prince in 1916 and died in New York in 1973. She is the author of five novels, including Dance on the Volcano, Fonds des Nègres, Fille d’Haiti, and Les Rapaces.

Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco, the latter of which won the American Translators Association Galantière Prize for Best Book. Their translation of Love, Anger, Madness was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

This biography was last updated on 08/04/2009.

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