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Jean D'Amerique, born in Haiti in 1994, is a poet, playwright, and novelist. He received the Prix de Poesie de la Vocation for his poetry collection Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante etreinte and the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journees de Lyon des Auteurs de The tre for his play Cathedrale des cochons. His first novel, Soleil coudre, was published in 2021. Thierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator based in Brooklyn, New York. His translation of Francis Bebey's novella Three Little Shoeshiners received support from the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference and was long-listed for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. Kehou holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark and a BA in Individualized Study from New York University's Gallatin School. He is a founding member and board member of Lampblack.
A Shakespearean debut novel, with the tragic beauty of a Gericault painting. Stunning. -Le Monde des livres The genius of Jean D'Amerique is having successfully used a language at once marvelously poetic and very hard. I couldn't pull myself away, I read it in one sitting. -Celimene Daudet, France Culture, Affaires culturelles Tenderness and violence alternate in this book that describes the 'gangsterization' of neighborhoods in the Haitian capital. -Le Point
