Daniel Maximin
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Born | 9 April 1947 ![]() |
Occupation | Writer |
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Daniel Maximin (born 9 April 1947) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in Saint-Claude, his family moved to France when he was thirteen. He studied at the Sorbonne and from 1980 to 1989 served as literary director of the journal Présence africaine. He returned to Guadeloupe in 1989 as Regional Director of Cultural Affairs. He was named a knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1993.
Works
[edit]- "Sartre Listening to Savages". Telos 44 (Summer 1980). New York: Telos Press.
- L'Isolé soleil (novel), 1981
- Soufrières (novel), 1987
- Lone Sun, 1989
- L'Invention des désirades (poetry), 2000
- L'Ile et une nuit (novel), 2002
- Tu, c'est l'enfance, 2004 (awarded the Prix Maurice Genevoix)
- Les Fruits du cyclone : Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe, 2006
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Bibliography
[edit]- Chaulet-Achour, Christiane. La Trilogie caribéenne de Daniel Maximin : Analyse et contrepoint. Paris, Karthala, 2000.
- Kaufman, Janice Horner. Daniel Maximin, Hélène Cixous and Aimé Césaire : Creolization, Intertextuality, and Coiled Myth. New York, Peter Lang, 2006.
External links
[edit]- (in French) Un entretien avec Daniel Maximin sur RFO Guadeloupe en 2004
- Angela Last. "Maximin, Daniel". Global Social Theory.
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- People from Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe
- Guadeloupean novelists
- University of Paris alumni
- 20th-century French novelists
- 21st-century French novelists
- Guadeloupean poets
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- French people of Guadeloupean descent
- Prix Maurice Genevoix winners
- French male essayists
- French male poets
- French male novelists
- 20th-century French essayists
- 21st-century French essayists
- Guadeloupean essayists
- 20th-century French male writers
- 21st-century French male writers
- Guadeloupean people stubs