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Marie Thérèse Colimon-Hall

May 30, 2019

Colimon-Hall was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1918. She began her literary career as a dramatist and published five dramas, among them La Fille de l’esclave (1949), Marie Clarie Heureuse (1955) and Luciole (1962). Her first novel, Fils de Misère (1974), received the France-Haiti Literary Prize; it features poignant observations about the Haitian people’s struggle against poverty. Her short-story collection, Les chants des sirènes (1979), examines the painful impact of the Haitian diaspora in the individual person as well as in the exiled community. Colimon-Hall also wrote essays and children’s literature. She was an educator and activist defending women’s rights and a founding member of the Female League of Social Action. She passed away in her country’s capital city in 1997.