Gary Klang
Gary Klang (born December 28, 1941, in Port-au-Prince Haiti), is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique" (Council of America's francophone writers). Klang's work is very rich.
Gary Klang
- Born
- 1941 · Port-au-Prince.
- Nationality
- Haiti
- Occupation
- university teacher · playwright · poet · essayist · translator · novelist · writer
- Fields
- fiction · essay
- Education
- Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV · Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague
- Languages
- French
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Gary Klang (born December 28, 1941, in Port-au-Prince Haiti), is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist. Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique" (Council of America's francophone writers). Klang's work is very rich.
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Gary Klang (born 1941) is an essayist, novelist and playwright, among other activities and a national of Haiti. The essayist was born in Port-au-Prince. Gary Klang studied at Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague and Paris-Sorbonne University - Paris IV.
Genres include essay and fiction. Languages used include French.
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Exile
Exile
It includes novels, poetry, short stories and essays. On July 14, 2000, "l'Union Française à Montréal" (the French Union of Montreal) chose Gary as the promoter of the French national holiday marking the storming of the Bastille. The same day, the same French Union participated in the launch of his collection of verses "La terre est vide comme une étoile". Also a member of the "Association des Ecrivains Québécois (UNEQ)" (Association of Quebec's writers), a member of the "Association des Ecrivains de langue française" (Association of writers of French origin) and of the PEN Club of Montreal. He was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, together with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Dany Laferrière, Josaphat-Robert Large and Leslie Manigat (Ex President of Haiti, the winner of the Prize).
Gary Klang graduated from the "Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague" in Port-au-Prince. He left Haiti in the 1960s, at the worst time of the Duvalier's dictatorship. In Paris where he went, he received a PhD in literature at Sorbonne University. His thesis is on Marcel Proust, the famous French novelist. It was in France that Gary met Maggy, the French student from Brittany who later became his wife. In 1973, they left together for Canada where they settled in Montreal. At first, Gary has been a professor of stylistics at the Université de Montréal. But, as he never like teaching, he changed hat and became a translator at the famous Engineering firm SNC-Lavalin. He retired from that position in 2006. Gary is very active in the French literary world. He participated in festivals in Mali (2007), Benin (2009) and Haiti (2007), not to mention Canada (Festival des Trois-Rivières) (2008)
Novels
Novels
• Haïti! Haïti! written with Anthony Phelps. Montréal: Libre Expression, 1985. • L'île aux deux visages. Brossard (Canada): Humanitas, 1997. • L'adolescent qui regardait passer la vie. Brossard (Canada): Humanitas, 1998. • Un homme seul est toujours en mauvaise compagnie. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2005. • Monologue pour une scène vide. Montréal: Dialogue Nord-Sud, 2013. • Le massacre de Jérémie - opération vengeance, réédition de Haïti! Haïti! écrit en collaboration avec Anthony Phelps. Montréal: Dialogue Nord-Sud, 2015.
Poetry
Poetry
• Ex-île. Grenoble: Éditions de la Vague à l'âme, 1988. • Je veux chanter la mer, suivi de Les Fleurs ont la saveur de l'aube. Montréal: Humanitas, 1993. • Moi natif natal, suivi de Le Temps du vide. Montréal: Humanitas, 1995. • La terre est vide comme une étoile. Brossard (Canada): Humanitas, 2000. • La vraie vie est absente. Brossard (Canada): Humanitas, 2002. • Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2007.
Short stories
Short stories
• Kafka m'a dit. Longueuil: Humanitas, 2004. • « Elle n'avait peur de rien ». Nul n'est une île: Solidarité Haïti. Sous la direction de Stanley Péan et Rodney Saint-Éloi. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier, 2004: 107–115. • Les chiens noirs. Montréal: Plume & Encre, 2006.
Essays
Essays
• La méditation transcendantale. Montréal: Stanké, 1976. • Je ne veux pas mourir chauve à Montréal. Brossard (Canada): Humanitas, 1999.
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* • Lecture de poèmes au Bénin (Cotonou). • Entretien avec Josaphat-Robert Large
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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded with the occupation poet. It is also recorded that gary Klang is recorded with the occupation translator. Institutional cataloguing adds that gary Klang is recorded with the occupation novelist. Recorded as a citizen of Haiti. The record continues: gary Klang is recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that gary Klang was born on 28 December 1941. Classed in the genre fiction. It is also recorded that gary Klang is classed in the genre essay. Recorded with the occupation university teacher. The same evidence establishes that gary Klang is recorded with the occupation essayist.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- La Moisson littéraire. Montréal: Proteau, 1993: 1–9.
- 101 Poètes en Québec. Montréal: Guérin, 1995: 223–225.
- Vingt ans d'Estuaire. Montréal: Estuaire, 1996: 146.
- Le dernier poème du millénaire. Montréal: Estuaire, 1999: 105.
- Dictionnaire des poètes d'ici de 1606 à nos jours. Montréal: Guérin, 2001: 552.
- Le 11 septembre des poètes du Québec. Montréal: Trait-d'Union, 2002: 124.
- Anthologie de la poésie haïtienne contemporaine, 1945–1999, French and Haitian Creole texts collected by Raymond Philoctète. Montréal: Cidihca, 1998: 148–151.
- Panorama de la littérature haïtienne de la diaspora. Pierre-Raymond Dumas. Port-au-Prince: L'Imprimateur II, 2000: 268–271.
- Toute terre est prison, poème. Une journée haïtienne, by Thomas C. Spear. Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier / Paris: Présence africaine, 2007: 67–70.
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