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Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual.[1][2] He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole,[3] and is "known as the father of Haitian letters".[4] As a painter, he is known for his colorful abstract works, often emphasizing the colors blue and red. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of the Arts and Letters), and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010.[1][5]

Frankétienne
Born	(1936-04-12) April 12, 1936 (age 86) Ravine-Sèche, Haiti
Occupation	Writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician
Notable awards	Commander 'Ordre des Arts et Lettres' (2010)

Early life

Frankétienne was born in Ravine-Sèche, a small village in Haiti. He was abandoned by his father, a rich American industrialist,[2][4] at a young age and was raised by his mother in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, where she was a respected entrepreneur, owning her own business to support her eight children, managing to send him, who was the eldest, to school.[2]

Selected works

• Au Fil du Temps, a compilation of poems
• Ultravocal, a novel
• Pèlin Tèt, a play written in Haitian Creole
• Dézafi, a novel about life during under the Duvalier regime, the first ever in Haitian Creole[6]
• Mûr à Crever, a novel
• Les Affres d'un Défi, a novel
• Désastre (12 janvier 2010), painting
• Difficile émergence vers la lumière, painting

References

External links

• Frankétienne author profile on Prince Claus Foundation site
• Île en île: Frankétienne author file (in French), with biography, bibliography, and audio

Further reading

• Douglas, Rachel (2009). Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress. New York: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-739-12565-6.
• Glover, Kaiama L. (2011). Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Post-Colonial Canon. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-846-31499-5.
• Hadjadj, Bernard (2012). Frankétienne, l'universel haïtien : entretiens. Marseille: Riveneuve. ISBN 978-2-360-13099-3.
• Jonassaint, Jean (2008). Typo-topo-poéthique sur Franketienne. Paris: l'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-06787-5.
• Jonassaint, Jean. "Frankétienne, Écrivain haïtien," Dérives 53/54 (1987)
• Oakley, Seanna Sumalee (2011). Common places the poetics of African Atlantic postromantics. Amsterdam: Rodopi. ISBN 978-9-042-03408-2.
• Schutt-Ainé, Patricia; Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 103. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
• Trudel, Benoît Jean-Marc (2009). L'énonciation non-rationnelle dans le roman francophone des Amériques: les stratégies socio-poétiques chez Jacques Ferron, Hubert Aquin, Édouard Glissant et Frankétienne. London, Ontario: School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Western Ontario.

На других языках

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[de] Frankétienne

Frankétienne (wirklicher Name: Frank Étienne; * 12. April 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Département Artibonite, Haiti) ist ein Schriftsteller, Dichter, Theaterschriftsteller, Musiker und Maler. Er schreibt sowohl auf Französisch als auch in haitianischem Kreol. Als Maler ist er bekannt für seine farbigen abstrakten Arbeiten, die häufig die Farben blau und rot betonen. Neben seinem künstlerischen Schaffen war er auch Schuldirektor und 1988 kurzfristig Kulturminister.

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- [en] Frankétienne

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[es] Frankétienne

Frankétienne (nacido Franck Étienne Ravine-Sèche, 12 de abril de 1936) es un escritor, poeta, guionista, pintor, músico y activista e intelectual[1][2] haitiano.[1][2] Su padre, abandonó el hogar siendo él un crío y creció con sus siete hermanos en el poblado chabolista Bel Air, al cuidado de su madre, una vendedora ambulante, respetada en la comunidad. Está reconocido como uno de los más importantes escritores haitianos en francés y criollo haitiano.[3] En 2009 fue propuesto al Nobel de literatura. Ese mismo año fue nombrado Comandante de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras de Francia. En 2010 la UNESCO lo designó "Artista de la Paz".[4]. Cultiva la llamada "estética del caos".[5]

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[fr] Frankétienne

Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent[réf. nécessaire], dit Frankétienne, est poète, dramaturge, peintre, musicien, chanteur et enseignant haïtien, né le 12 avril 1936 à Ravine Sèche (village de la commune de Saint Marc dans le département de l'Artibonite).

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[ru] Франкетьен

Франкетьен (фр. Frankétienne, настоящее имя Жан-Пьер Базилик Дантор Франк Этьен д’Аржан, фр. Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent, 2 апреля 1936, деревня Равин-Сеш, ныне часть муниципалитета Потно коммуны Гранд-Салин, департамент Артибонит, Республика Гаити) — гаитянский поэт, драматург, художник, музыкант, певец и педагог. Опубликовал более 40 сочинений как на гаитянском креольском, так и на французском языках.

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