Dany Laferrière
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Dany Laferrière (born 17 April 1953) is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, and raised in Petit Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haïti before moving to Canada in 1976. He also worked as a journalist in Canada, and hosted television programming for the TQS network.
Laferrière published his first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired) in 1985. The novel was later adapted into a screenplay by Laferrière and Richard Sadler, earning a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. The film adaptation of the novel starred Isaach De Bankolé and was directed by Jacques W. Benoit.
He writes his novels exclusively in French, although many have been published in English with translations by David Homel.
The 2005 film Heading South (Vers Le Sud) was adapated from three of his short stories.
Laferrière currently divides his time between Montreal, Quebec and Miami, Florida.
[edit] Works
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- English translation How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, 1987 (Coach House Press)
- Éroshima, 1987 (Éditions VLB)
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- English translation Eroshima, 1991 (Coach House Press)
- L'odeur du café, 1991 (Éditions VLB)
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- English translation An Aroma of Coffee, 1993 (Coach House Press)
- Le goût des jeunes filles, 1992 (Éditions VLB)
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- English translation Dining with the Dictator, 1994 (Coach House Press)
- Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, 1993 (Éditions VLB)
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- English translation Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, 1994 (Coach House Press)
- Chronique de la dérive douce 1994 (Éditions VLB, poetry)
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- English translation A Drifting Year, 1997 (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Pays sans chapeau, 1996 (Éditions Lanctôt)
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- English translation Down Among the Dead Men, 1997 (Douglas & McIntyre)
- La chair du maître, 1997 (Éditions Lanctôt)
- Le charme des après-midi sans fin, 1997 (Éditions Lanctôt)
- Dans l'oeil du cyclone, 1999 (Éditions Lanctôt)
- Le cri des oiseaux foux, 2000 (Serpent à plumes)
- Je suis fatigué, 2000 (Les librairies initiales)
[edit] External links
- Dany Laferrière at The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Critical bibliography (Auteurs.contemporain.info)
- Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguertitle at the Internet Movie Database
- Vers Le Sud at the Internet Movie Database
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