Roger Gaillard (

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( ; ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Haiti, most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The me ...

, 10 April 1923 – 2000) was a

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

an historian and novelist. Born in

, Gaillard earned a philosophy degree at the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

in France. He is best known for his multiple-volume chronicle of the United States' occupation of Haiti.

Selected works

* ''L'Univers Romanesque de

Jacques Roumain Jacques Roumain Encarnación (; June 4, 1907 – August 18, 1944) was a Haitian writer, politician, and Marxist. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Langston Hughes translated some of Roumain's works, includ ...

'' (1965) * ''La Destinée de Carl Brouard'' (1966) * ''Les Cent Jours de

Rosalvo Bobo Dr. Pierre François Joseph Benoit Rosalvo Bobo (1874–1929), known as Rosalvo Bobo, was a Haitian politician, and a leader of the rebel faction called the Cacos (military group), Cacos. In March of 1915, he started and led a rebellion against ...

'' (1973) * ''

Charlemagne Péralte Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (; 10 October 18861 November 1919) was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the United States occupation of Haiti in 1915. Leading guerrilla fighters called the Cacos, he posed such a challenge to the US forces ...

le Caco'' (1982) * ''La Guérilla de Batraville'' (1983) * ''La Déroute de l'Intelligence'' (1992)

References

* 1923 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Haitian historians Haitian male novelists People from Port-au-Prince 20th-century Haitian novelists 20th-century Haitian male writers Haitian expatriates in France {{Haiti-writer-stub