Marlène Rigaud Apollon

Marlène Rigaud Apollon (born May 23, 1945) is a Haitian-born educator and writer who has been living in the United States since 1964.[1]

She was born in Cap-Haïtien and was educated at the Institution du Sacré-Cœur de Turgeau in Port-au-Prince,[1] going on to earn a BA from the University of Maryland and a MS in from Towson University. She has taught French and French literature at the primary, secondary and university levels.[2]

Her work has appeared in the periodicals Sapriphage, Utah Foreign Language Review and River City.[2] Her story "Manman pas kite yo koupe janm mwen, Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg" was included in the anthology Haïti Rising (2010).[3]

Selected works[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Marlène Rigaud Apollon" (in French). ile en ile.
  2. 1 2 Rigaud Appollon, Marlène (1998). Haiti Trivia: Questions and Answers about Haiti. pp. 71–73. ISBN 1881839656.
  3. "Marlène Rigaud Apollon: To the Memory of my Father". Onè? Respè! (in French).


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