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Jean Metellus

Jean Metellus, born 30 April 1937 ^{The poet}

In 2006 the Grand Prix International Leopold Sedar Senghor of Poetry of the French language for all of his work. The award was presented at the Paris book fair in March 2006 by Sylvester and Paul Sabourin Clancier Association New Pleiade.
In 2007 Grand Prize of the Poetry Society of Men of Letters for his body of work.
In 2010 The International Prize of Poetry French Fondane Benjamin. The award was presented to Jean Metellus for his literary works and essays in March 2010 at the Palais de Bhague by the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Metellus is a traditional poet, without music, without constraints, they are words that take over and take the reader into vibration.

Among his numerous poetic writings are the most popular singing pipirite, published for the first time in the new collection letters to Maurice Nadeau in the early 1970s, Clairvoyance, appeared in 1984 and reissued in Hatier in the 2000s published by Janus, and Skin and Other Poems, published in 2006 by Editions Seghers.

Novelist

Jean Metellus with a dozen novels, including more than half published by Gallimard, was one of three French emissaries of the train of the literature of 2000 which toured Europe (27 countries) for 3 months. It was translated into English, Russian, Dutch and Italian. He received two awards from the French Academy for his novels:

Prix Andr Barre in 1982
Foundation Award in 1984 Roland de Jouvenel.

Jean Metellus is present in the dictionary of the literature of the Encyclopdia Universalis. He wrote two novels: those that happen in Haiti, whose main characters are Haitian (Jacmel at dusk, The Vortex family, Toussaint Louverture, the precursor, etc..), And those that deal with other subjects, speech , artists or Medicine ( An etching , Charles-Honore Bonnefoy, call captive).

Playwright

One of his plays , Anacaona was played alternately with The Misanthrope by Molire at Theatre de Chaillot in Paris in 1988. The theater is Metellus as the rest of his work: poetry and singing, but realistic, and therefore sometimes cruel. Then he wrote other pieces such as The Red Bridge, Columbus and Henry the cacique.

The essayist

His first attempt, Haiti, a nation pathetic, clearly explains the tragedy of Haiti . The second journey through language, can be considered an extension of the mysteries of speech. The third, from slavery to abolition, ^XVII - XX ^centuries, written in collaboration with Marcel Dorigny, is a lively fresco numerous reproductions of works of art depicting the chronicle of the abolition of slavery. Dictation of truth is the result of interviews with Jacques Hubert Poncheville; for the first time, you can discover more intimately Jean Metellus, his struggles, his struggles, his inspirations. His last test, a bestseller Dyslexia Cheers!, Co-authored with Beatrice Sauvageot, presents a new approach to dyslexia and methods of rehabilitation.

References

Record authoritative person on the online catalog of the BnF
Curiously, in this essay, Jean Metellus took over the nomenclature of Statistics of the French Empire, as if to unconsciously clear separation between France and Haiti, unless it is an unconscious desire to scratch the distance a kind of reflex exile.