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Depestre, René

LC control no.n 50001715
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ3949.D46
Personal name headingDepestre, René
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Associated countryHaiti
Associated placeCuba France
Birth date1926-08-29
Place of birthJacmel (Haiti)
AffiliationCasa de las Américas
Profession or occupationPoets Novelists
Found inHis Etincelles, 1945.
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1926)
East Carolina Univ. Writers of the Caribbean WWW site, Mar. 30, 2004 (René Depestre, b. in Haiti in 1926; lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime; a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house; best known for his poetry; novelist; later a resident of France)
Danticat, E. "René Depestre" in The Caribbean writer, vol. 9, 1995: page 87 (Depestre was born in Jacmel, Haiti on August 29, 1926)
Associated languagefre