Rodney Saint-Éloi | |
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Born | Cavaellon, Haiti |
Occupation | poet |
Nationality | Haitian- Canadian |
Period | 2010s-present |
Notable works | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé |
Rodney Saint-Éloi is a Haitian- Canadian poet. [1] He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, at the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre [2] and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé. [3]
Born and raised in Cavaellon, Haiti, he moved to Montreal in 2001. [4] He was a founder of the Haitian publishing company Éditions Mémoire in 1991, [5] and has published poetry collections including J'avais une ville d’eau, de terre et d'arc-en-ciel heureux (1999), J’ai un arbre dans ma pirogue (2003) and Récitatif au pays des ombres (2011). [5]
Rodney Saint-Éloi | |
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Born | Cavaellon, Haiti |
Occupation | poet |
Nationality | Haitian- Canadian |
Period | 2010s-present |
Notable works | Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé |
Rodney Saint-Éloi is a Haitian- Canadian poet. [1] He is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, at the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre [2] and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé. [3]
Born and raised in Cavaellon, Haiti, he moved to Montreal in 2001. [4] He was a founder of the Haitian publishing company Éditions Mémoire in 1991, [5] and has published poetry collections including J'avais une ville d’eau, de terre et d'arc-en-ciel heureux (1999), J’ai un arbre dans ma pirogue (2003) and Récitatif au pays des ombres (2011). [5]