“When, as a young man, my body began to utter its first words in the language of puberty, my mother had accepted into our home the daughter of a villager with whom we’d had a business relationship . . .”
Read Josaphat R. Large’s inspiration for Rosanna, the protagonist in his story in Haiti Noir in the InnerView Section of VoicesfromHaiti, and in Kreyol Pale.
Poet, novelist, and photographer, Josaphat R. Large’s novel Les terres entourées de larmes won the prestigious Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (Caribbean Literary Prize) 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 writes in French and Kreyol. The Society of French and francophone teachers of America has organized two colloquium on his literary production (specially his novels), 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 authors in the great literary opening organized in Port-au-Prince by the Presses Nationales d’Haiti (National Press of Haiti).
Text of J-R Large’s Rosanna in English
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