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
Endgame, Endgames, End Game, End Games, or similar variations may refer to:
Film
* ''The End of the Game'' (1919 film)
* ''The End of the Game'' (1975 film), short documentary U.S. film
* ''Endgame'' (1983 film), 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic f ...
'' and ''
Waiting for Godot'' 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 –
Treaty of Basseterre between Europeans and Kalinagos recognising the
Kalinago
The Kalinago, also known as the Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have been related to the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language ...
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 novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
, , 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
Bibliography
* Georges-Henri Léotin, Monchoachi, preface by
Raphaël Confiant
Raphaël Confiant (born January 25, 1951) is a 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 science at the ...
,
* No. 72, 14 September 2016.
References
1946 births
Martiniquais poets
21st-century pseudonymous writers
20th-century pseudonymous writers
20th-century French writers
21st-century French writers
Living people
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