Jean Metellus
Jean Métellus (30 April 1937 - 4 January 2014) was a Haitian neurologist, poet, novelist and playwright. Jean Métellus was born in Jacmel, Haiti. After completing his education in Haiti, he worked as a teacher.
Jean Metellus
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- Name
- Jean Métellus
- Born
- 30 April 1937
- Birthplace
- Jacmel, Haiti
- Died
- 4 January 2014
- Occupation
- Doctor Poet Novelist Playwright
- Full name
- Jean Jacques Philippe Martin Decius Metellus.
- Nationality
- Haiti and France.
- Honours
- Grand prix de la francophonie, Grand prix de poésie de la SGDL and Roland de Jouvenel Prize.
- Languages
- French.
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Jean Métellus (30 April 1937 - 4 January 2014) was a Haitian neurologist, poet, novelist and playwright. Jean Métellus was born in Jacmel, Haiti. After completing his education in Haiti, he worked as a teacher.
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In 1959 he moved to Paris to escape the Duvalier dictatorship, where he studied linguistics and medicine, specializing in neurology. In 1973 the magazine Les Lettres Nouvelles published his poem "Au pipirite chantant," beginning his career as a poet and writer. Some of Métellus's early poems were also published by Jean-Paul Sartre in his Les Temps Modernes. Métellus' plays include Anacaona, which was produced in Paris at the Thèâtre National de Chaillot by Antoine Vitez. Métellus published several novels, books of poetry and plays. In 2019, Haun Saussy translated a collection of Métellus's poetry titled When the Pipirite Sings: Selected Poems, which was published by Northwestern University Press. Métellus dedicated his books to his wife, Anne-Marie Cercelet-Métellus. He died on January 4, 2014.
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• Name — Jean Métellus • Born — 30 April 1937 • Birthplace — Jacmel, Haiti • Died — 4 January 2014 • Occupation — Doctor Poet Novelist Playwright
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- 2.Le poète et neuro-linguiste haïtien Jean Métellus est mort, L'Humanité, 6.01.2014
- 3.L'Humanité.
- 4.Thèse de linguistique, notice du Sudoc.
- 5.Les grandes voix de l'Afrique - Jean Métellus: Ayti, le «pays haut et montagneux». RFI. 2018-08-07.
- 6.Jean Metellus Revue Phoenix.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- (Article) Jean-Louis Joubert, « Métellus Jean (1937-2014) », Encyclopædia Universalis,
- Françoise Naudillon, Jean Métellus, Éd. l'Harmattan, Paris, 1994, 223 p.
- Françoise Naudillon, Des maux du langage à l'art des mots : entretiens avec Jean Métellus, Éditions Liber, Montréal, 2004, 196 p.
- (Document sonore) Ayelevi Novivor, « L'écriture d'un patrimoine chez Jean Métellus et Joseph Zobel », Service commun de la documentation, université des Antilles et de Guyane, .
- (Film) Rencontres autour de l'œuvre de Jean Métellus, film de Ginette Adamson, Jean-Claude Charles et Louis-Philippe Dalembert, et al., L'Harmattan vidéo, Paris, 2007, 1 h 51 min (DVD)
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