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Daniel Maximin

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Daniel Maximin
Daniel Maximin in 2017
Born9 April 1947 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationWriter
Awards

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

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Daniel Maximin in at the salon Livre Amerigo Vespucci (Festival international de géographie at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in 2006)

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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  • (in French) Un entretien avec Daniel Maximin sur RFO Guadeloupe en 2004
  • Angela Last. "Maximin, Daniel". Global Social Theory.