La vie et ses couleurs

Lyonel Trouillot (born Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 31, 1956) is a novelist and poet in French and Haitian Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.Lyonel Trouillot was born in a family of lawyers. The writer Évelyne Trouillot is his sister. Following his parents' divorce in the late 1960s, he went to the United States with his mother. He returned to Haiti at age 19, in 1975.Between 1980-82, political repression forced Trouillot to emigrate to Miami.He studied law, but switched to literature early in his career.Trouillot has contributed to different newspapers and magazines in Haiti. He has published poetry, and also writes song lyrics for such musical artists as Tanbou Libète and Manno Charlemagne.In 2014 he wrote together with Raoul Peck and Pascal Bonitzer the script for Peck's feature film Murder in Pacot.Trouillot is known for his service to democracy in his country, and for his resistance to Haitian dictatorship. He was part of the Collective Non of intellectuals and artists that helped to force out the democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He was a member of the transitional government following the departure of Aristide, as a cabinet member of the minister of culture.(from Wikipedia)...