Roussan Camille
| Roussan Camille | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 August 1912 Jacmel, Haiti |
| Died | 7 December 1961 (aged 49) |
| Nationality | Haitian |
| Other names | Nassour El Limac |
| Occupation | poet, journalist and diplomat |
| Known for | Assaut à la Nuit (1940) |
Roussan Camille (27 August 1912 – 7 December 1961) was a Haitian poet, journalist, and diplomat.[1]
Biography
Born in Jacmel, he was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, the Lycée Pinchinat of Jacmel and the Tippenhauer College in Port-au-Prince. Under Charles Moravia's directorship, he began a career as a journalist, publishing articles, poems and the column "Bel aujourd'hui" under his pen-name Nassour El Limac, in Haiti-Journal, Temps-Revue and L'Action nationale.[2] He became director of Haiti-Journal after Moravia's death in 1938.[2]
Camille entered public service, and was appointed to several diplomatic functions, including secretary of the Haitian legation to Paris and Haitian vice-consul in New York City, and then returned home to become secretary general in the ministry of health.[3]
His best known work is Assaut à la Nuit (Port-au-Prince: Impr. de l'Etat, 1940). He was awarded the Dumarsais Estimé poetry prize for his collection Multiple Présence (Quebec: Editions Naaman, 1978).[2]
Awards
- 1961 Price Dumarsais Estimé.
- 2004 Henri Deschamps Literary Award (posthumous).
References
- ↑ (French) Biography
- 1 2 3 Donald E. Herdeck (ed.), Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopaedia, Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1979, pp. 316-17.
- ↑ Keith A. P. Sandiford, A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora, Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 114.
Notes
- Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 101. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
Further reading
- (French) F. Raphaël Berrou and Pradel Pompilus, Histoire de la littérature haïtienne illustrée par les textes, vol. 3 (1977), 237–252.