page_title: List of Haitians
section_title: Literature
hierarchical_section_title: List of Haitians / Literature
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of j-r large
context_page_description: This is a list of notable Haitian people. It includes people who were born in Haiti or possess Haitian citizenship, who are notable in Haiti and abroad. Due to Haitian nationality laws, dual citizenship is now permitted by the Constitution of Haiti, therefore people of Haitian ancestry born outside of the country are not included in this list, unless they have renounced their foreign citizenship or have resided extensively in Haiti and made significant contributions to Haitian government or society. The list includes both native-born and naturalized Haitians, as well as permanent foreign residents who have been recognized internationally for artistic, cultural, economic, historical, criminal, or political reasons, among others. If not indicated here, their birth in Haiti and notability are mentioned in their main article. This list does not include fictional characters or Haitian associations and organizations.
context_section_description: Jacques Stephen Alexis  Doctor, poet, novelist, Politician & Founder of The Haitian Communist Party and PEP : Parti D'entente Populaire.
  Marlène Rigaud Apollon – poet, youth non-fiction writer
  Beaubrun Ardouin – historian and politician
  Céligny Ardouin – historian and politician
  Coriolan Ardouin – romantic poet
  Elsie Augustave – author
  Mimi Barthélémy – writer and storyteller
  Jacqueline Beaugé-Rosier – poet, novelist, educator
  Dantès Bellegarde – historian and diplomat
  Bayyinah Bello – historian
  Michèle Bennett – former First Lady, wife of President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier, both of whom were exiled
  Boisrond-Tonnerre – the author of the Independence Act of Haiti
  Emeric Bergeaud – novelist
  Guy Joseph Bonnet – historian, army general, signer of the Haitian Act of Independence
  Jean-Fernand Brierre – poet
  Carl Brouard  – poet
  Edner Brutus – historian, diplomat and politician
  Timoléon C. Brutus – historian and politician
  Georges Castera - poet
  Suzy Castor - historian and social activist
  Christophe Charles – poet
  Raymond Chassagne – poet and essayist
  Jean-Baptiste Cinéas – novelist and Supreme Court judge
  Massillon Coicou – poet, novelist, playwright, and politician
  Louis-Philippe Dalembert – novelist, poet and essayist, winner of the Cuban Literary Prize Casa de las Américas
  Edwidge Danticat – American author
  Felix Darfour – journalist
  Maggy de Coster – journalist and poet.
  Michel DeGraff – Creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies
  Demesvar Delorme – theoretician, writer, and politician
  Lilas Desquiron – novelist, ethnologist, cabinet minister
  Roger Dorsinville – poet, dramatist, historian, and diplomat
  Joel Dreyfuss – Haitian-American journalist, editor, and writer now based in Paris, France
  Oswald Durand – poet and politician, said to be "to Haiti what Shakespeare is to England and Dante to Italy."
  Antoine Dupré – poet and playwright
  Frantz Duval – editor-in-chief of Le Nouvelliste newspaper
  Alibée Féry –  playwright, poet, and storyteller
  Jessica Fièvre – novelist, editor
  Jean-Claude Fignolé - author
  Anténor Firmin – anthropologist, journalist, and politician
  Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne) – author, poet, playwright, musician and painter. Candidate for Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009
  André Fouad  author, poet, Journalist and Story teller
  Fred Edson Lafortune (fr) – poet, writer and editor
  Mona Guérin – educator and writer
  Nathalie Handal – award-winning poet, writer, and playwright
  Choiseul Henriquez – journalist
  Fernand Hibbert – novelist, one of the most-widely read Haitian authors
  Ady Jean-Gardy – journalist and activist; founder of the Haitian Press Federation
  Jean-Jacob Jeudy – journalist, activist, politician
  Aubelin Jolicoeur – columnist
  Johny Joseph – journalist and academic
  Raymond Joseph – journalist, diplomat, political activist
  Laurore St. Juste – historian and author
  Dany Laferrière – Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist, member of the Académie française
  Edmond Laforest – poet, novelist
  Juliette Bussière Laforest-Courtois - teacher and journalist
  Josaphat-Robert Large – poet, novelist and art critic; won the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean literary Prize) in 2003
  Dimitry Elias Léger – novelist
  François-Romain Lhérisson – poet and educator
  Thomas Madiou – his work Histoire d'Haïti (English: History of Haiti) is considered one of the most valuable documents of Haitian literature
  Marie-Sœurette Mathieu – sociologist, teacher and writer now residing in Quebec.
  Jules Solime Milscent – fabulist, poet, and politician
  Michèle Montas – journalist
  Charles Moravia – poet, dramatist, teacher, and diplomat
  Félix Morisseau-Leroy – author, writer, educator, activist, poet, and playwright
  Émile Nau – historian and politician
  Marilene Phipps – Haitian-American poet, painter, and short-story writer
  Pradel Pompilus – writer and scholar, best known for his three-volume study of Haitian literature.
  Paulette Poujol-Oriol – educator, writer and feminist
  Emmelie Prophète – writer and diplomat
  Jacques Roumain – poet, novelist, editor
  Émile Roumer – poet
  Edris Saint-Amand – novelist
  
caption: Josaphat-Robert Large, recipient of the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes
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