Roussan Camille
Roussan Camille (27 August 1912 – 7 December 1961) was a Haitian poet, journalist, and diplomat.
Also recorded as Nassour El Limac
Roussan Camille
- Name
- Roussan Camille
- Born
- 27 August 1912
- Birthplace
- Jacmel, Haiti
- Died
- 7 December 1961
- Known for
- Assaut à la Nuit (1940)
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Nationality
- Haiti
- Languages
- French
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Roussan Camille (27 August 1912 – 7 December 1961) was a Haitian poet, journalist, and diplomat.
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Roussan Camille (1912–1961) was a diplomat, journalist and poet, among other activities, a national of Haiti. The diplomat was born in Jacmel and died in Port-au-Prince. Languages used include French.
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• Name — Roussan Camille • Born — 27 August 1912 • Birthplace — Jacmel, Haiti • Died — 7 December 1961 • Other Names — Nassour El Limac • Known for — Assaut à la Nuit (1940) • Occupation — * Poet • journalist • diplomat
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Born in Jacmel, he was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, the Lycée Pinchinat of Jacmel and the Tippenhauer College in Port-au-Prince. Under Charles Moravia's directorship, he began a career as a journalist, publishing articles, poems and the column "Bel aujourd'hui" under his pen-name Nassour El Limac, in Haiti-Journal, Temps-Revue and L'Action nationale. He became director of Haiti-Journal after Moravia's death in 1938. Camille entered public service, and was appointed to several diplomatic functions, including secretary of the Haitian legation to Paris and Haitian vice-consul in New York City, and then returned home to become secretary general in the ministry of health. His best known work is Assaut à la Nuit (Port-au-Prince: Impr. de l'Etat, 1940). He was awarded the Dumarsais Estimé poetry prize for his collection Multiple Présence (Quebec: Editions Naaman, 1978).
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• 1961 Price Dumarsais Estimé. • 2004 Henri Deschamps Literary Award (posthumous).
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- 1.Biography
- 2.Donald E. Herdeck (ed.), Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopaedia, Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1979, pp. 316–17.
- 3.Keith A. P. Sandiford, A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora, Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 114.
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- F. Raphaël Berrou and Pradel Pompilus, Histoire de la littérature haïtienne illustrée par les textes, vol. 3 (1977), 237–252.
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