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Emmelie Proph te (b. 1971, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the author of two poetry collections and six novels, the first of which, Les Testaments de Solitude, won the Grand Prix litteraire de l'Association des ecrivains de langue fran aise. Proph te's most recent novel, Les Villages de Dieu, was awarded the Prix FetKann Maryse Conde, a prize that recognizes literature promoting human dignity from the largely postcolonial global South. Proph te is the former director of the National Library of Haiti, and is now a cultural curator in Port-au-Prince. Aidan Rooney (b. 1965, Monaghan, Ireland) is a teacher at Thayer Academy in Massachusetts, USA. Rooney's poetry collections include Go There, Tightrope, and Day Release. His translations from Haitian Krey l and French can be read elsewhere at AGNI, Asymptote, Carte Blanche, Tanbou, as well as in print in New American Writing #39. His honors include the Sunday Tribune / Hennessy Cognac Award for New Irish Poetry and the Daniel Varoujan Award from the New England Poetry Club. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts.
“The best book on Haiti in a very long time ... powerful, spot on, likely the best written. This splendid writer's talent grabs us by the throat from the start, tightens the grip with each chapter, relaxes later on, then grips us again at the end, leaving us speechless.” —Dany Laferrière “Emmelie Prophète renders the lives of others, particularly women, in tight prose and sharp narration.” —Yves Chemla, Le National “This audacious novelist invests her heroine with glory as she narrates on the social networks the lives of women from the cité. Totally believable, an indelible voice.” —Valérie Marin La Meslée, Le Point “A powerful, breathtaking novel with a diverse cast of ordinary people, this book tattoos onto our memory.” —Ricot Marc Sony, Le Nouvelliste “Emmelie Prophète's fifth novel is immediately gripping. The writing borrows its descriptive immediacy from journalism and the characters confront the day to day grind of existence. A compelling read.” —Anne Bocandé, Jeune Afrique “An extraordinary novel. The female characters are striking in their radiance.” —Michel Désautels, Désautels le Dimanche ""Cécé feels like the arrival of a bold new talent, and its heroine’s voice, amplified by Aidan Rooney’s sparkling translation, is fresh and full of passionate energy as it rips open a whole new view of Haiti’s tormented earth."" —Madison Smartt Bell ""Emmelie Prophète creates an intricate, honest, and achingly beautiful rendering of Port-au-Prince from the point of view of a bright young woman archiving it all. With stunning prose, Prophète constructs a fully realized world with its terrors and its tenderest people. This is a gift of a book."" —Leila Mottley
