Emmelie Prophète
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Emmelie Prophète Milcé
| image = Emmelie Prophète-Milcé 0299.JPG
| caption = Emmelie Prophète Milcé in 2012
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1971|06|05}}
| birth_place = Port-au-Prince, Haiti
| nationality = Haitian
| education = Université de Port-au-Prince, Jackson State University
| occupation = writer, government official
| office = Minister of Culture and Communication
| primeminister = Ariel Henry (acting)
| term_start = 11 January 2022{{Cite web |title=Haiti's Henry announces new cabinet members, offices |url=https://haitiantimes.com/2022/01/14/haitis-henry-appoints-new-cabinet-members-new-roles/ |date=14 January 2022 |accessdate=3 April 2024 |work=The Haitian Times }}
| term_end = 24 April 2024
| predecessor = Ariel Henry (acting){{Cite web |title=De nouvelles nominations au sein de l'administration publique |url=https://lenouvelliste.com/article/233630/de-nouvelles-nominations-au-sein-de-ladministration-publique |date=12 January 2022 |accessdate=3 April 2024 |work=Le Nouvelliste |lang=fr-HT }}
| office1 = Minister of Justice and Public Security
| status1 = Acting
| primeminister1 = Ariel Henry (acting)
| term_start1 = 14 November 2022{{cite news|url=https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-38128-haiti-flash-ministers-of-justice-and-interior-forced-to-resign.html|title=Haiti prime minister ousts top officials amid growing crisis|author=Laura Gamba Fadul|work=Haiti Libre|date=14 November 2022|access-date=4 April 2024}}
| term_end1 = 24 April 2024
| successor1 = Carlos Hercules{{Cite web |date=2024-06-12 |title=Haiti's new government ministers sworn into office |url=https://caribbean.loopnews.com/content/haitis-new-government-ministers-sworn-office |access-date=2024-06-13 |website=Loop News |language=en}}
}}
Emmelie Prophète (born June 5, 1971), also known as Emmelie Prophète Milcé, is a Haitian writer and diplomat.{{cite web |url=http://ile-en-ile.org/prophete_emmelie/ |title=Emmelie Prophète |work=ile en ile |date=6 March 2007 |language=fr}} From November 2022 till April 2024, she served as the justice minister of Haiti.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-14 |title=Haiti prime minister ousts top officials amid US sanctions |url=https://apnews.com/article/caribbean-haiti-f1e9b0db9751f13c6dc1264b377c4a2d |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=Associated Press |language=en-US}}
Early life and education
Prophète was born in Port-au-Prince and studied law and modern literature at the Université de Port-au-Prince and communications at Jackson State University. Prophète has also hosted a jazz program on Radio-Haïti. She has served as director of the Haiti Direction Nationale du Livre{{cite web |url=http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/archives/fiches-auteurs/prophete-emmelie.html |title=Emmelie Prophète |publisher=Association des écrivains de la Caraïbe |access-date=2016-02-15 |archive-date=2018-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315133905/http://ecrivainsdelacaraibe.com/archives/fiches-auteurs/prophete-emmelie.html |url-status=dead }} and the Bureau haïtien du droit d’auteur.
Literary career
Prophète has published two books of poetry and six novels.{{Cite web |date=2022-10-04 |title=Emmelie Prophète |url=https://agnionline.bu.edu/about/our-people/authors/emmelie-prophete/ |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=AGNI Online |language=en}} She has contributed to various periodicals such as Chemins Critiques, Boutures, Cultura, La Nouvelle Revue Française and Le Nouvelliste.
Her novel Le Testament des solitudes won the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Association des écrivains de langue française in 2009.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-04 |title="When You Feel Things, You Have to Talk About Them." Emmelie Prophète on Writing About Family |url=https://lithub.com/when-you-feel-things-you-have-to-talk-about-them-emmelie-prophete-on-writing-about-family/ |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}} It became the first novel of hers to be published in English when, translated by Tina Kover and with the English title Blue, it was published by Amazon Publishing's translation imprint, AmazonCrossing, in January 2022.{{Cite journal |last=Cope |first=Robyn |date=2022 |title=Blue by Emmelie Prophète (review) |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/431/article/867555 |journal=World Literature Today |volume=96 |issue=6 |pages=57–59 |doi=10.1353/wlt.2022.0275 |issn=1945-8134}}
Her 2020 novel, Les Villages de Dieu (English: The Villages of God) won the 2022 Carbet de Lycéens.{{Cite web |last=Blaise |first=Juhakenson |date=2022-05-26 |title=Haitian culture minister Emmelie Prophète wins Guadeloupean prize for novel |url=https://haitiantimes.com/2022/05/26/haitian-culture-minister-emmelie-prophete-wins-guadeloupean-prize-for-novel/ |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=The Haitian Times |language=en-US}}
Government career
Prophète served as an attaché at the embassy in Haiti and in Geneva. In 2014, she was named head of the National Library of Haiti.{{cite news |date=April 8, 2014 |title=Emmelie Prophète, directrice de la Bibliothèque nationale d'Haïti |newspaper=Le Nouvelliste |url=http://lenouvelliste.com/lenouvelliste/article/129585/Emmelie-Prophete-directrice-de-la-Bibliotheque-nationale-dHaiti}} In January 2022, the acting prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, appointed her Minister of Culture and Communication.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-01-14 |title=Haiti's Henry announces new cabinet members, offices |url=https://haitiantimes.com/2022/01/14/haitis-henry-appoints-new-cabinet-members-new-roles/ |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=The Haitian Times |language=en-US}} Henry then named Prophète as justice minister in November 2022, making her Haiti's fifth justice minister since the July 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïse.
Selected works
- Des marges à remplir, poetry (2000)
- Sur parure d’ombre, poetry (2004)
- Le Testament des solitudes, novel (2007), received the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes from the {{Interlanguage link multi|Association des écrivains de langue française|fr}}
- Published as Blue in English in 2022
- Le reste du temps, novel (2010)
- Impasse Dignité, novel (2012)
- Le désir est un visiteur silencieux, novel (2014)
- Le bout du monde est une fenêtre, novel (2015)
- Les Villages de Dieu, novel (2020)
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