Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall

Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall (née Colimon, April 11, 1918 – April 1997), was a Haitian writer.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Colimon began her writing career as a playwright and published five plays between 1949 and 1960. In 1974 she published her first and most well-known novel, Fils de Misère. She also wrote essays, short stories, and children's literature. Colimon's keen observations of the Haitian people's struggle against poverty gave a particularly poignancy to her work, as demonstrated by Fils de Misère. In Les Chants des sirenes, her collection of short stories, she explored the painful impact of the Haitian diaspora on both the individuals in exile and the Haitian community. She was one of the initial members of the Feminine League for Social Action.[1]

Recording from the Library of Congress

Marie-Thérèse Colimon Hall reading from her own work (1980).

References

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick (2004). Haiti: The Breached Citadel (2nd ed.). Ontario: Canadian Scholars Press. p. 39. ISBN 1-55130-268-3.

Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 102. ISBN 0-9638599-0-0.
Esteves, Carmen C.; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, eds. (1991). Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-1738-4.

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[Breached_Citadel_39-1] Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick (2004). Haiti: The Breached Citadel (2nd ed.). Ontario: Canadian Scholars Press. p. 39. ISBN 1-55130-268-3.