Introduction to Évelyne Trouillot
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haïti, Évelyne Trouillot lives and works there as a French professor at the State Universtiy. She published her first book of short stories in 1996. In 2004, Évelyne Trouillot received the award: Prix de la romancière francophone du Club Soroptimist de Grenoble for her first novel Rosalie l’infâme. In 2005, her first piece for the theatre Le bleu de l’île received the Beaumarchais award from ETC Caraïbes.
Évelyne Trouillot has published two books of poetry: Sans parapluie de retour in 2001, and Plidetwal (in Creole) in 2005. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish and English and published in numerous issues of such magazines as Bacchanales of the Maison de la poésie of Rhône-Alpes in France; also in many anthologies, among them Terre de femmes – 150 ans de poésie féminine en Haïti (Éditions Bruno Doucey, France), and also in Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
Her latest novel La mémoire aux abois, published in France (Éditions Hoëbeke), in May 2010, received the Le prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde.
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