page_title: Josaphat-Robert Large
section_title: Exile
hierarchical_section_title: Josaphat-Robert Large / Exile
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Une photo de l'auteur Josaphat-Robert Large que j'ai prise moi-même
context_page_description: Josaphat-Robert Large was a Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic. His novel Les terres entourées de larmes [Shore surrounded with tears] won the prestigious Prix littéraire des Caraïbes in 2003. He was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, together with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Gary Klang, Dany Laferrière and Leslie Manigat.
  Large was also one of the finalists at the Ushant Literary Contest in 2002. He wrote in both French and Haitian Creole. Josaphat-Robert Large was a member of " La Société des Gens de Lettres de France", of the "Association des Écrivains de langue française" and of the PEN Club America. The Society of French and francophone teachers of America has organized two colloquium on his literary production, one at Florida International University in 2001 and one at Fordham University in 2006. Large also participated in the famous festival Étonnants-Voyageurs in 2007 and in 2008, he was one of the author in the great literary opening organized in Port-au-Prince by the Presses Nationales d'Haiti.
context_section_description: Josaphat-Robert Large left Haiti at the end of 1963, after being arrested during a student strike against the regime of Papa Doc Duvalier. In New York, he studied English at Columbia University and photography at New York institute of Photography. He was a founding member of La Troupe de Théâtre Kouidor (Theatre group Kouidor) and frequently wrote for Haitian newspapers such as Haïti Progrès, Haïti en Marche, Le Nouvelliste and Lire Haiti.
caption: Josaphat-Robert Large (September 2007)
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