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At the age of 18, he made what was regarded as remarkable literary debut with an essay about the Haitian poet, Hamilton Garoute.

He died in Casernes Dessalines, Haiti, survived by his wife Andree Roumer, niece of eminent Haitian poet Émile Roumer, his daughter Florence Alexis and his son, Jean-Jacques Stephen Alexis (AKA: JanJak II).

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Bibliography

• Compère Général Soleil (1955).

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• Rodriguez, Emilio Jorge, Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity / Haití y la transcaribeñidad literaria. In April 1961, he returned to Haiti, but soon after landing at Môle-Saint-Nicolas he was captured by a Tonton Macoute paramilitary force.
  
  He was taken to the town"s main square where he was tortured and then put on a boat to Portuguese-au-Prince.
  
  He was never seen again.

  He collaborated on a number of literary reviews, before founding La Ruche, a group dedicated to creating a literary and social spring in Haiti in the early 1940s. Son roman, Compère Général Soleil, salué dès sa parution en 1955 comme un chef-d’œuvre frôle le Prix Goncourt ; il retrace le massacre des travailleurs haïtiens de la canne en 1937 en République Dominicaine, dont il dévoile la logique totalitaire.

  Alexis grew up in a family in which literary and political discussions were the norm. Professor Laroche having contributed to the making better known the importance of Jacques Stephen Alexis, his students at Laval University and around the world have published many books and articles -some of which can be found at the Library of Lava l University l.

  

  Background

  Alexis was born in Gonaïves, the son of journalist, historian and diplomat Stephen Alexis and descendant of one of Haiti"s founding fathers, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

  In April 1961, he returned to Haiti, but soon after landing in Bombardopolis he was arrested. Later his death in confinement was confirmed by an obscure notice in the government newspaper buried on page 14.

  Politics

  He collaborated on a number of literary reviews, before founding Louisiana Ruche, a group dedicated to creating a literary and social spring in Haiti in the early 1940s.

  The novel has been translated into English as General Sun, My Brother, and is a must-read for all those with an interest in understanding Haiti. St. Martin: House of Nehesi Publishers, 2011.

• Rodriguez, Emilio Jorge (2013). Libéré de prison, son diplôme de docteur en médecine en poche et contraint à l'exil, il part pour Paris où il se spécialise en neurologie à La Salpêtrière et s’attelle à son premier et plus célèbre roman.

  Pour autant, la dictature ne parvient à effacer ni son œuvre fulgurante ni même son message politique d’union qui continuent de rayonner aujourd’hui.

  Internationalement reconnu pour sa nouvelle définition proprement caribéenne d’un réalisme merveilleux, dans une langue splendide, son œuvre virtuose tisse le baroque et l’imaginaire populaire pour dire les épreuves et les espérances d’un peuple démuni et exploité, fort et courageux, en un style unique qui sait échapper au prêche édifiant ou moralisateur dicté par le réalisme socialiste de l’époque.

  À titre posthume, en 2018, Jacques Stéphen Alexis reçoit le premier prix littéraire Jean d'Ormesson pour son ultime roman publié en 1959 : L'Espace d'un cillement, second volume d’une trilogie interrompue.

  In 1959, he formed the People's Consensus Party (Parti pour l'Entente Nationale-PEP), a left-wing political party, but he was forced into exile by the Duvalier dictatorship. In August 1960, he attended a Moscow meeting of representatives of 81 communist parties from all over the world, and signed a common accord document called "The Declaration of the 81" in the name of Haitian communists.

  He was arrested under the name Joseph Thevenot, although he later revealed his true identity.

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  Jacques Stephen Alexis was a Haitian communist novelist, poet, and activist. In August 1960, he attended a Moscow meeting of representatives of 81 communist parties from all over the world, and signed a common accord document called "The Declaration of the 81" in the name of Haitian communists.

  In April 1961, he returned to Haiti, but soon after landing at Môle-Saint-Nicolas he was captured by a Tonton Macoute paramilitary force.

  His mother was Dominican. Carrol F. Coates and Edwidge Danticat (2002).

• Romancero aux étoiles (1960).
• L'étoile Absinthe, suivi de Le léopard (2017).

Books

• Maximilien Laroche, Le Romancero aux étoiles et l'œuvre romanesque de Jacques-Stephen Alexis, 1978Maximilien Laroche, Le réalisme merveilleux dans Les arbres musiciens de Jacques-Stéphen Alexis, GRELCA, 1987Maximilien Laroche, Contribution à l'étude du réalisme merveilleux, Collection Essais, Québec, GRELCA.