Essay · Français
L'Art presque perdu de ne rien faire
Dany Laferrière · 2009
A playful meditation on idleness, reading, and writing by the first Haitian elected to the Académie française.
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Every work in the archive.
24 works of Haitian literature — poetry, novels, theatre and oral histories — in Kreyòl, French and English.
Novel · Français
Pays sans chapeau
Dany Laferrière · 1996
A writer returns to Port-au-Prince after twenty years of exile and finds a country both familiar and dreamlike.
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Monsieur Toussaint
Édouard Glissant · 1961
A landmark Caribbean play on Toussaint Louverture's final days, meditating on revolution and memory.
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The Hour of Departure
Edwidge Danticat · 2024
A multigenerational novel following a family split between Port-au-Prince and Brooklyn.
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Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat · 1995
Nine stories of boat people, mothers and daughters, and the tales that carry them across the water.
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat · 1994
A girl leaves Haiti for New York and confronts the inherited wounds carried by the women of her family.
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The Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat · 2004
Interwoven stories orbiting a former torturer of the Duvalier regime and the Haitian-American lives around him.
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Mesi Papa
Evelyne Trouillot · 2010
Intimate stories of Haitian childhood, memory, and family ties across the island and the diaspora.
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Rosalie l'infâme
Evelyne Trouillot · 2003
A midwife's daughter narrates the world of enslaved women in colonial Saint-Domingue on the eve of revolution.
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Chants pour la ville basse
Frankétienne · 2022
Spiralist poems for the lower city — chaos, music and survival in Port-au-Prince.
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Dézafi
Frankétienne · 1975
The first major novel written entirely in Haitian Creole — a spiral-language masterpiece about a village under a zonbi-making master.
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Les Ancêtres de chaque jour
Gary Victor · 2011
A sharp, darkly funny novel following a Haitian journalist through the absurdities and tenderness of everyday Port-au-Prince life.
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Gouverneurs de la rosée
Jacques Roumain · 1944
The classic novel of Manuel, who returns to Fonds-Rouge to bring water — and unity — to his village.
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Compère Général Soleil
Jacques Stephen Alexis · 1955
A worker's odyssey from Port-au-Prince to the cane fields — love, labor and dignity.
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Letters from Jacmel
Jean-Claude Charles · 2023
A rediscovered correspondence between two writers across decades of exile, longing and return.
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Bouki fait son bien
Justin Lhérisson · 1906
A classic satirical novel of Haitian society, greed, and clever trickery — a cornerstone of early national literature.
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Pawòl Granmoun
Kettly Mars · 2025
Elders' voices from the Artibonite valley, recorded and woven into a living archive of memory.
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Claire de lune et chagrin
Marie Chauvet · 1960
A pioneering Haitian woman writer's luminous exploration of love, class, and constraint in mid-century Haiti.
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Amour, colère et folie
Marie Chauvet · 1968
A bold trilogy written under the Duvalier regime, denouncing dictatorship, patriarchy, and silence — rediscovered as a classic.
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Lwa nan Lannwit
Marie-Célie Agnant · 2024
Nocturnal poems invoking the spirits of the sea and the ancestors, written in luminous Kreyòl verse.
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Lapli a ap vini
Mimi Barthélémy · 2019
Contes and riddles collected from master storytellers, keeping the krik-krak tradition alive.
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Hadriana dans tous mes rêves
René Depestre · 1988
A baroque, carnivalesque tale of a young woman who dies at the altar — and refuses to stay dead.
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Bone Naïve
Rodney Saint-Éloi · 2021
Meditations on memory, the sea and Montréal winters from one of the diaspora's great voices.
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Ti Difé
Syto Cavé · 2020
A one-act play of a neighborhood's small fires — gossip, hope and stubborn joy.