Emmelie Prophète

• Name — Emmelie Prophète Milcé • Born — 5 June 1971 • Birthplace — Port-au-Prince, Haiti • Education — Université de Port-au-Prince, Jackson State University • Occupation — writer, government official • Office — Minister of Culture and Communication • Prime Minister — Ariel Henry (acting) • Term Start — 11 January 2022 • Term End — 24 April 2024 • Predecessor — Ariel Henry (acting) • Office1 — Minister of Justice and Public Security • Status1 — Acting • Prime Minister1 — Ariel Henry (acting) • Term Start1 — 14 November 2022 • Term End1 — 24 April 2024 • Predecessor1 — Berto Dorcé • Successor1 — Carlos Hercules

Prophète was born in Port-au-Prince and studied law and modern literature at the Université de Port-au-Prince and communications at Jackson State University. Prophète has also hosted a jazz program on Radio-Haïti. She has served as director of the Haiti Direction Nationale du Livre and the Bureau haïtien du droit d’auteur.

Prophète has published two books of poetry and six novels. She has contributed to various periodicals such as Chemins Critiques, Boutures, Cultura, La Nouvelle Revue Française and Le Nouvelliste. Her novel Le Testament des solitudes won the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Association des écrivains de langue française in 2009. It became the first novel of hers to be published in English when, translated by Tina Kover and with the English title Blue, it was published by Amazon Publishing's translation imprint, AmazonCrossing, in January 2022. Her 2020 novel, Les Villages de Dieu (Literal English translation: The Villages of God) won the 2022 Carbet de Lycéens. The English translation by Aidan Rooney and with the title Cécé was published in 2025.

Prophète served as an attaché at the embassy in Haiti and in Geneva. In 2014, she was named head of the National Library of Haiti. In January 2022, the acting prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, appointed her Minister of Culture and Communication. Henry then named Prophète as justice minister in November 2022, making her Haiti's fifth justice minister since the July 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïse.

Source: • Des marges à remplir, poetry (2000) • Sur parure d’ombre, poetry (2004) • Le Testament des solitudes, novel (2007), received the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes from the Association des écrivains de langue française • Published as Blue in English in 2022 • Le reste du temps, novel (2010) • Impasse Dignité, novel (2012) • Le désir est un visiteur silencieux, novel (2014) • Le bout du monde est une fenêtre, novel (2015) • Un ailleurs à soi, novel (2018) • Les Villages de Dieu, novel (2020) • Published as Cécé in English in 2025