Gary Victor
| Gary Victor | |
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| Born |
9 July 1958 Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Occupation | Writer, playwright, politician |
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 uncompromising tone of his television series on the manners of the Haitian bourgeoisie, did not fail to make daily waves on the air. 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 a sociologist, René Victor. After studying agronomy, he worked as a civil servant among others the Ministry of Planning before becoming a journalist. He practiced business journalist and currently holds the position of editor at the daily Le Matin. He is also a writer for radio, film and television. From 1976 to 1983, Gary Victor publishes news in the state newspaper, Le Monde, and subsequently, in the daily Le Nouvelliste, where he was a columnist from 1983 to 1990. He was editor until in June 2004 the daily Le Matin.[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: Prix Casa de las Américas, Le sang et la mer
Works
- Novels
- Nuit Albinos, 2007
- Clair de Manbo, 1990
- Un octobre d'Élyaniz, 1996.
- La Piste des sortillèges, 1996 réédité en 2002
- Le Diable dans un thé à la citronnelle, 1998 réédité en 2005
- À l'angle des rues parallèles, 2000 réédité en 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.
- 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