“Remembering Jacques Stéphen Alexis: A Centenary Celebration” commemorates the centennial anniversary of the birth of Jacques Stéphen Alexis (1922– -1961), renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, activist, and neurologist born in Gonaïve, Haiti.…
April 22, 1922, Jacques Stéphen Alexis is born in Gonaïve, Haiti to Lydia Nuñez and Stéphen Alexis during the American occupation of Haiti (1915-1934).
1926, Alexis starts his elementary education at the Collège Stanislas de Paris, France when his…
Stéphen Alexis was a Haitian writer, activist, diplomat, and the father of Jacques Stéphen Alexis. His letter, to his friend Antoine Rigal, is referring to their respective imprisonments during the American occupation. Alexis dedicated the book to…
"I will not have a lot of time, unfortunately! To continue, from afar, my inalienable paternal duty … See my little daughter, I can give you something I know well, since I have desperately sought and found it, while continuing to seek it, this is…