Mona Guérin

The daughter of Gontran Rouzier and Camille Duplessy, she was born Mona Rouzier in Port-au-Prince. She studied with the Sœurs de Saint-Joseph de Cluny and at the Pensionnat Sainte-Rose de Lima in Port-au-Prince. She received a bursary from the Canada Arts Council which allowed her to study contemporary literature at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. On her return to Haiti, she married Joseph Guérin, an engineer; the couple had two daughters. She taught school from 1965 to 1980. From 1961 to 1965, she wrote a weekly column for Le Nouvelliste. Guérin also wrote scripts for the television series Gala de Galerie which appeared on Télé-Haïti from 1977 to 1981 and for the radio series Roye! Les Voilà which was broadcast from 1982 to 1994. She was host of the radio program Dieu à tout moment (1992-1994) and also wrote about sixty episodes for the radio series Petit théâtre de Magik-Stéréo. In 1983, she was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Guérin died in Port-au-Prince at the age of 77 after contracting pneumonia.

Source:

• L'Oiseau de ces dames (1966) • Les Cinq Chéris (1969) • La Pieuvre (1971) • Chambre 26 (1973) • Sylvia (1974) • La Pension Vacher (1976)

• Sur les vieux thèmes, poetry (1958) • Mi-figue, mi-raisin, stories (1998), received the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes from the Association des écrivains de langue française