Sylviane Telchid

Sylviane Telchid (born 1941) is a Guadeloupean writer, translator and professor of French and Antillean Creole.
Biography.
Sylviane Telchid was born in 1941 in the Antilles, in the Capesterre-Belle-Eau commune of the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe. She became a teacher at a school in Capesterre-Belle-Eau, the Collège Germain Saint-Ruf.
In 1976, one of her colleagues there, the mathematics professor Hector Poullet, proposed teaching classes in Creole, despite the ban on using Creole in a school setting. Of the teachers he approached about joining his project, only Telchid and Danielle Montbrand answered the call. In 1983, Creole finally became part of the pedagogy at the Collège Germain Saint-Ruf.
Telchid went on to dedicate herself to the defense and rehabilitation of Guadeloupean culture and Guadeloupean Creole. In 1984, Telchid, Poullet and Montbrand published the first Guadeloupean Creole–French dictionary.
She has also translated several French texts into Creole, including translations of Molière and Jean de La Fontaine. She has also translated plays by the likes of Anton Chekhov and Bertolt Brecht. Since her retirement, Telchid has worked on a translation of the Bible into Creole.
In October 2014, the Bonne Espérance School in Capesterre-Belle-Eau was renamed Collège Sylviane Telchid in her honor. Four years later, a bust of Telchid sculpted by Jocelyn Pézeron was unveiled at the school.