Daniel Maximin is a Guadeloupean novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in Saint-Claude

Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe

Saint-Claude is a French commune in the overseas department of Guadeloupe. It lies in the interior of southern Basse-Terre island, just northeast of the capital city of Basse-Terre.-References:*...

, his family moved to France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 when he was thirteen. He studied at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

 and from 1980 to 1989 served as literary director of the journal Présence africaine

Présence Africaine

Présence africaine is a panafrican quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947. In 1949, Présence africaine expanded to include a publishing house and a bookstore on the rue des Écoles in the Latin Quarter of Paris...

. He returned to Guadeloupe in 1989 as Regional Director of Cultural Affairs. He was named a knight of the Légion d'honneur

Légion d'honneur

The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...

 in 1993.

Works

• “Sartre Listening to Savages”. Telos 44 (Summer 1980). New York: Telos Press.
• L'Isolé soleil (novel), 1981
• Soufrières (novel), 1987
• Lone Sun, 1989
• L'Invention des désirades (poetry), 2000
• L'Ile et une nuit (novel), 2002
• Tu, c'est l'enfance, 2004 (awarded the Prix Maurice Genevoix
  Prix Maurice Genevoix
  The Prix Maurice Genevoix is an annual French literary award made in honor of its namesake Maurice Genevoix ....
  
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• Les Fruits du cyclone : Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe, 2006

Bibliographie

• Chaulet-Achour, Christiane. La Trilogie caribéenne de Daniel Maximin : Analyse et contrepoint. Paris, Karthala, 2000.
• Kaufman, Janice Horner. Daniel Maximin, Hélène Cixous and Aimé Césaire : Creolization, Intertextuality, and Coiled Myth. New York, Peter Lang, 2006.

External links

Un entretien avec Daniel Maximin sur RFO Guadeloupe en 2004