Pradel Henriquez, the Minister of Culture pays homage, on April 12, 2020, to "Frankétienne" an extraordinary artist.

Minister Henriquez recalls that "Frankétienne's first novel written in Creole language 'Dezafi' published in 1975, had been hailed as soon as it was published by national and international critics as a major work which marked Creole-language literature.

Main founder of the spiralism movement, the writer during his 60 years of careers has not stopped introducing us to the heart of a chaos tinged with poetic, metaphysical, iconographic, dreamlike, philosophical, voodoo, psychoanalytic and spiralist figures. His work, woven with delirious energy and madness, affirms that he is a wonderfully gifted writer with amazing discoveries in lexical and linguistic matters.

[...] At the age of 84, he has produced 60 books to date, including his latest Incandescences, dealing with spirituality like a writer at the top of his game. Poet, playwright, singer, performer, painter, Frankétienne, is an exceptional creator who, despite the turpitudes of life in Haiti, continues to leave us an epic work, creative and master of herself. Born on an Easter Sunday, the coincidence required that his birthday marking the date he should leave falls on an Easter Sunday, according to this method that he described to us during his numerous conferences under the name of 'Life Cycle'.

Premonitory or not, Frankétienne is still alive to celebrate this great day with hier family under a sky which gives way to the Covid pandemic19, in a space which he himself would have called 'indefinite where men and gods rub shoulders with the infinity of light and shadow'."

See also :

https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-24238-icihaiti-literature-tribute-to-franketienne.html

Find out more about Frankétienne :

Born April 12, 1936, to Ravine Sèche, communal section Poteneau of the town of Grande Saline, in the Artibonite Department, of his real name "Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent" (Frankétienne) is a poet, painter, actor, and co-founder of the literary movement "spiralisme" [founded in Frankétienne 1965 by Frankétienne, René Philoctète later joined by Jean-Claude Fignolé]. He is the author of more than fifty literary works and laureate of many prestigious awards, raised to the rank of Commander in the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2010 and nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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