Marie Vieux Chauvet
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Vieux-Chauvet, Port-au-Prince 1963
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| Born | September 16, 1916 Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Died | June 19, 1973 New York |
| Pen name | Colibri |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Haitian |
| Period | 1947–73 |
| Genre | Novels, plays, short stories |
| Spouses | Dr. Aymon Charlier, Pierre Chauvet |
| Relatives | Constant Vieux (Father), Delia Nones (Mother) |
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (September 15, 1916–June 19, 1973) was a Haitian novelist, poet and playwright. Born and educated in Port-au-Prince, she is most famous works for the novels Fille d'Haïti (1954), La Danse sur le Volcan (1957), Fonds des Nègres (1961), and Amour, Colère, Folie (1969).[1]
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Family history
Marie Vieux-Chauvet was born in Haiti on September 16, 1916, to Constant Vieux, a Haitian politician, and his wife Delia Nones, a woman originally from the Virgin Islands.[2] Marie completed her studies at the l'Annexe de l'École Normale d'Institutrices and obtained a degree in elementary education in 1933.[2] She married Aymon Charlier, a doctor, then divorced him. She later married Pierre Chauvet, a travel agent.[2]
Work
Vieux-Chauvet's works focus on class, race, women, family structure and the upheaval of Haitian political, economic and social society during the United States occupation of Haiti[3] and dictatorship of François Duvalier. Although she lived under heavy surveillance during Duvalier's dictatorship, Vieux-Chauvet persisted as a writer, hosting meetings of the Les Araignées du Soir (Evening Spiders), a group of poets and writers of which she was the only female.
Vieux-Chauvet sent a trilogy of novellas to France to be published as a single book titled Amour, Colère, Folie (Love, Anger, Madness).[4] The trilogy Amour, Colère, Folie was published by the prestigious publishing house Gallimard in Paris [1] with the support of Simone de Beauvoir. The trilogy was perceived as an attack on the Haitian dictator François Duvalier.[1] Fearing the dictator's legions of Tonton Macoutes, her husband bought all the copies of the book he could find in Haiti,[1] and Vieux-Chauvet's daughters bought the remaining copies from Gallimard a few years later.
She moved to New York, where she worked as a housekeeper, and she remarried. She died of brain cancer in the United States on June 19, 1973..
The English translation of Amour, Colère, Folie (Love, Anger, Madness) by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur was released in 2009 with an introduction by Haitian American writer Edwige Danticat.
Literary awards
- 1954 Prix de l'Alliance Française for Fille d'Haïti[2]
- 1960 Prix France-Antilles for Fonds des Nègres[2]
- 1986 Prix Deschamps (posthumous), for Amour, Colère et Folie[2]
Bibliography
Novels
- Fille d'Haïti (Paris: Fasquelle, 1954; Paris: Zellige, 2014.)[2]
- La Danse sur le Volcan (Paris: Plon, 1957; Paris / Léchelle: Maisonneuve & Larose / Emina Soleil, 2004 (reprint with a preface by Catherine Hermary-Vieille); Léchelle: Zellige, 2008, 2009.)[2]
- Fonds des Nègres (Port-au-Prince: Henri Deschamps, 1960.)[2]
- Amour, Colère et Folie (Paris: Gallimard, 1968; Paris / Léchelle: Maisonneuve & Larose / Emina Soleil, 2005; Léchelle: Zellige, 2007, 2011; Paris: Zulma, 2015.)[2]
- Les Rapaces (Port-au-Prince: Deschamps, 1986.)[2]
Plays
- La Légende des Fleurs (Port-au-Prince: Henri Deschamps, 1947; Port-au-Prince: Éditions Marie Vieux, 2009.)[2]
- Samba (Produced around 1948 in Port-au-Prince. Unedited)[2]
- Amour, Colère et Folie (Adapted by José Pliya. Paris: Avant-Scène Théâtre, 2008.) Amour was produced by Vincent Goethals, with Magali Comeau-Denis (Claire) and Cyril Viallon (danseur) et performed at the l'Artchipel in Guadeloupe in 2008; Colère was produced by François Rancillac, with Nicole Dogué (Laura), at the l'Artchipel in October 2008; Folie was produced by José Exélis in October 2009 at the l'Artchipel in Guadeloupe.[2]
Short story
- Ti-Moune nan Bois (Optique 7. September 1954: 57-60.)[2]
References
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- Chancy, Myriam. Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
- Dalleo, Raphael. Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
- Dash, Michael. The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.
- Dayan, Joan. Hait, History and the Gods. Berkeley: University of California, 1998.
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See also
- Pages with broken file links
- 1916 births
- 1973 deaths
- Haitian women novelists
- Haitian dramatists and playwrights
- People from Port-au-Prince
- Women dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century women writers
- 20th-century novelists
- Deaths from brain tumor
- Cancer deaths in New York
