Gary Victor

Knight of the National Order of Merit (2001)
Prix littéraire des Caraïbes (2007)
Prix RFO du livre (2004)
Casa de las Américas Prize (2012)
Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises (2018)

Gary Victor (born 9 July 1958 in Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian writer, playwright, and scriptwriter for television and radio. His radio sketches and the uncompromising tone of his television series on the manners of the Haitian bourgeoisie provoked controversy and discussion. He also served as the General Secretary of the Senate of Haiti from 1996 to 2000.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Victor was born in Port-au-Prince and is the son of the sociologist René Victor. After studying agronomy, he worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Planning and other ministries before becoming a journalist. He has become well known as a writer for radio, film and television. From 1976 to 1983, Gary Victor published short works of fiction in the state newspaper, Le Nouveau Monde, and subsequently, in the daily Le Nouvelliste, where he was a columnist from 1983 to 1990. He was editor of the daily Le Matin until June 2004.^[1]

Awards

2001: Ordre national du Mérite of France, All his work
2003: Prix du Livre insulaire (fiction) à Ouessant, À l'angle des rues parallèles
2004: Prix RFO du livre, Je sais quand Dieu vient se promener dans mon jardin
2008: Prix littéraire des Caraïbes, Les cloches de la Brésilienne
2012: Casa de las Américas Prize, Le sang et la mer

Works

Novels

Clair de Manbo, 1990
Un octobre d'Élyaniz, 1996
La Piste des sortillèges, 1996 reprinted in 2002
Le Diable dans un thé à la citronnelle, 1998 reprinted in 2005
À l'angle des rues parallèles, 2000 reprinted in 2003
Le Cercle des époux fidèles, 2002
Je sais quand Dieu vient se promener dans mon jardin, 2004
Dernières nouvelles du colonialisme, 2006
Les Cloches de la Brésilienne, 2006
Nuit Albinos, 2007
Banal oubli, 2008
Saison de porcs, 2009
Le sang et la mer, 2010
Soro, 2011
Maudite éducation, éditions Philippe Rey, 2012
Cures et châtiments, 2013
Le sang et la mer II: Hérodiane, 2016
Les Temps de la cruauté, 2017
Masi, 2018
Un homme dangereux, 2022

References

^ ^a ^b CUNY Lehman – Gary Victor
^ "The Segal Center – Contemporary Haitian Theatre: Playwright & Novelist Gary Victor". Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2015.