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Louis-Philippe Dalembert is a Haitian poet and novelist, who writes in both French and Haitian creole. His works have been translated into several languages. He now divides his home between Paris and Port-au-Prince. He has received several prizes and awards for his work, among them, a residency at the Villa Medicis in Rome, the Grand Prix de la langue franc aise, Polish and Swiss Goncourt Choice 2019, Goncourt des lyce ens shortlist for The Mediterranean Wall and the Prix Orange du livre 2017, Grand Prix du roman de l'Acade mie franc aise shortlist and Prix Me dicis short list for his novel, Avant que les ombres s'effacent. He is also known to be an avid soccer fan. Trained in literature and journalism, Dalembert first worked as a journalist in his homeland before leaving in 1986 for France where he obtained his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in comparative literature and a master's in journalism from the Ecole Supe rieure de Journalisme de Paris. Since then, he has traveled widely as a teacher and visiting poet, and has taught briefly at the University of Wisconsin, the Freie Universit t (Berlin) and the University of Bern and currently holds the Writer-in-Residence Chair at Sciences Po Paris. His poetry has been published in several major literary journals in the US, and Dalembert was a contributor to the recently released anthology And We Came Out and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Epidemic.
""Echoing the murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd, this heartfelt, fluidly told account by Haitian novelist Dalembert (The Mediterranean Wall) portrays one young Black man and his fatal encounter with the police. Emmett grows up in the rough Franklin Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, a gentle, charismatic boy with a talent for football whose story is unfolded through accounts by the people around him. Starting with the Pakistani shopkeeper now recriminating himself for having called 911 on Emmett, they include an idealistic white teacher at his grammar school; childhood friends in Franklin Heights; the Black coach at the predominantly white, Catholic university where Emmett won an athletic scholarship; Emmett's white fianceìe, distraught when he ends their relationship as unworkable in a hostile world; and the woman he became involved with when he returned home, his NFL dreams destroyed by injury. An extended third-person account of Emmett's funeral and an accompanying demonstration point hopefully to the dream of equality for all. What results is the poignant portrait not just of one Black man destroyed by racist violence but of an entire community struggling with its burdens. VERDICT Inaugural recipient of an Albertine Publishers Grant and shortlisted for the U.S. Prix Goncourt, this eloquently translated work will engender conversation and engage readers of both literary and popular fiction."" --Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal ""Dalembert is a world-class poet and chronicler not only of the African diaspora but of the radical uprootedness of people everywhere. His work is the work of witness, infused with love and admiration for the millions of sufferers who endure the violent disruptions of our time with dignity and perseverance and a love for one another that is equal to his own."" --Russell Banks, author of Continental Drift, and The Sweet Hereafter
