Roger Gaillard (

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is defin ...

, 10 April 1923 – 2000) was a

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

an historian and novelist. Born in

, Gaillard earned a philosophy degree at the

University of Paris The University of Paris (french: link=no, Université de Paris), Metonymy, metonymically known as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, active from 1150 to 1970, with the exception between 1793 and 1806 under the French Revo ...

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 (June 4, 1907 – August 18, 1944) was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. The African-American poet, Langston Hughes, translated some of ...

'' (1965) * ''La Destinée de

Carl Brouard Carl Brouard (5 December 1902 – November 1965) was a Haitian poet. He is best known for his compilation of poems entitled ''Ecrit sur du Ruban Rose''. Brouard was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 1927, Brouard along with Jacques Roumain, � ...

'' (1966) * ''Les Cent Jours de

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

'' (1973) * ''

Charlemagne Péralte Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (1886 – 1 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 in Haiti ...

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 male writers Haitian expatriates in France {{Haiti-writer-stub