Daniel Maximin
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Daniel Maximin (born 9 April 1947) is a French novelist, poet, and essayist. Born in Saint-Claude, his family moved to France when he was thirteen. He studied at the Sorbonne and from 1980 to 1989 served as literary director of the journal Présence africaine. He returned to Guadeloupe in 1989 as Regional Director of Cultural Affairs. He was named a knight of the Légion d'honneur in 1993.
Works
- "Sartre Listening to Savages". [http://www.telospress.com 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)
- Les Fruits du cyclone : Une géopoétique de la Caraïbe, 2006
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Bibliography
- 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
- {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20071010055940/http://guadeloupe.rfo.fr/article19.html Un entretien avec Daniel Maximin sur RFO Guadeloupe en 2004]
- {{cite web|author=Angela Last|title=Maximin, Daniel|website=Global Social Theory|url=https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/maximin-daniel/}}
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Category:University of Paris alumni
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Category:Knights of the Legion of Honour
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Category:Prix Maurice Genevoix winners
Category:French male essayists
Category:French male novelists
Category:20th-century French essayists
Category:21st-century French essayists
Category:Guadeloupean essayists
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