Paulette Poujol-Oriol

Paulette Poujol-Oriol is one of Haiti’s most celebrated novelists. She won Le Monde’s prestigious prize for best short story in francophone countries in 1988 for “La Fleur Rouge.” She also received Haiti’s coveted literary prize, the Prix Henri Deschamps, for her novel Le Creuset (The Crucible) in 1980. Le Passage was originally published in French in 1996. She passed away on March 11, 2011.