Edmond Laforest
Edmond Laforest (20 June 1876 – 17 October 1915) was a Haitian poet.
Edmond Laforest
- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1915 · Port-au-Prince.
- Nationality
- Haiti
- Occupation
- journalist · poet · playwright · politician
- Languages
- French
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Edmond Laforest (20 June 1876 – 17 October 1915) was a Haitian poet.
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Born in Jérémie, Laforest was a teacher of French and mathematics. Some of his most noted works are Poèmes Mélancoliques (1901), Sonnets-Médaillons (1909), and Cendres et Flammes. He killed himself by tying a Larousse dictionary around his neck and jumping off a bridge, to expose how the French language, imposed upon him by colonists, had killed him artistically.
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Edmond Laforest is recorded with the occupation journalist. Recorded as journalist, poet, playwright and politician.
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1876
Edmond Laforest was born on 20 June 1876.
1915
Edmond Laforest died on 17 October 1915.
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- 1.Three Continents Press. Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical-critical Encyclopedia. 413. 1979. 978-0-914478-74-4.
- 2.Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Editor's Introduction: Writing 'Race' and the Difference It Makes", Race, Writing and Difference, University of Chicago Press, 1987, p. 13.
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