Marlène Rigaud Apollon

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Marlène Rigaud Apollon (born May 23, 1945) is a Haitian educator and writer who has been living in the United States since 1964.[1]

She was born in Cap-Haïtien and was educated at the Institution du Sacré-Cœur de Turgeau in Port-au-Prince,[1] going on to earn a BA from the University of Maryland and a MS in from Towson University. She has taught French and French literature at the primary, secondary and university levels.[2]

Her work has appeared in the periodicals Sapriphage, Utah Foreign Language Review and River City.[2] Her story "Manman pas kite yo koupe janm mwen, Mommy, don’t let them cut my leg" was included in the anthology Haïti Rising (2010).[3]

Selected works[1][edit]

  • I Want to Dance, poetry (1996)
  • Si je n’avais que des regrets, poetry (1997)
  • The Moon’s a Banana, I am me (1998)
  • Haiti Trivia,youth non-fiction (1998), in English, French and Creole
  • Haitian Art Trivia, youth non-fiction (2002), in English and Creole
  • Elle s’appelait Elizabeth: L’histoire de Mère Marie Lange, biography translated into English as Her name was Elizabeth: The Story of Mother Mary Lange (2002)
  • Cris de Colère, Chants d’espoir, poetry (2007)
  • Louis Mercier, À la Reconquête de l’Idéal haïtien: Une voix d’hier pour aujourd’hui et demain, biography translated into English as Louis Mercier, To Reconquer the Haitian Ideal: A Voice from Yesterday for Today and Tomorrow (2008)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Marlène Rigaud Apollon" (in French). ile en ile.
  2. ^ a b Rigaud Apollon, Marlène (1998). Haiti Trivia: Questions and Answers about Haiti. pp. 71–73. ISBN 1881839656.
  3. ^ "Marlène Rigaud Apollon: To the Memory of my Father". Onè? Respè! (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-02-19. Retrieved 2016-02-14.