Monchoachi is a French writer, born in 1946 in Saint-Esprit, Martinique. In 2003, he won the Carbet Caribbean Prize and the Max Jacob Prize for . Samuel Beckett's '' Endgame'' and ''

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'' are among the plays he has translated into Martinican Creole. Monchoachi is also the founder of Lakouzémi, a political magazine and an annual political and poetic meeting which ran from 2007 to 2009. Its three annual meeting days saw poets meet in cockfighting arenas to talk, dance, recite and exchange ideas. In an interview with the political review site , he spoke about the significance of the timing of these events: * 15 August – Ceremony at the Bois Caiman, 1791, * First Saturday in December – Columbus' arrival in the Lesser Antilles, 1493, * 18 June –

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between Europeans and Kalinagos recognising the

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nation, 1660.

Works

; In Martinician Creole * , La Ligue, 1980 * , Impr. Libres, 1979 * Éditions caribéennes
1982
* , Imprimerie Desormeaux, 1983 *

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

, , traduction de par Monchoachi, New legend, 2002 * Samuel Beckett, , traduction de par Monchoachi, New legend, 2002 * , avec Georges-Henri Léotin, Juliette Smeralda-Amon, Lakouasos, 2007 ; French * , Schœlcher, Presses universitaires créoles-GEREC; Paris, l'Harmattan, 1992 * , Bordeaux, William Blake & Co, 2002 * , Sens, Obsidiane, 2002 * , Atlantica, 2002 * , Obsidiane 2012 * , Obsidiane 2016 * , Obsidiane 2021 * , Lundimatin 2023

Bibliography

* Georges-Henri Léotin, Monchoachi, preface by

Raphaël Confiant Raphaël Confiant (born January 25, 1951) is a Martinique, Martinican writer known for his literary commitment towards Creole literature. Life and career Raphaël Confiant was born in Le Lorrain, Martinique. He studied English and political sci ...

, * No. 72, 14 September 2016.

References

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