Dany Laferrière  (born Windsor Kléber Laferrière, 13 April 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist who writes in French. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015.

Life
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in Petit-Goâve, Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haiti before moving to Canada in 1976. He also worked as a journalist in Canada, and hosted television programming for the TQS network.

Laferrière published his first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) in 1985. The novel was later adapted into a screenplay by Laferrière and Richard Sadler, earning a Genie Award nomination for best adapted screenplay at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990. The film adaptation of the novel starred Isaach De Bankolé and was directed by Jacques W. Benoit.

Laferrière writes exclusively in French, although some of his works have been published in English translation by David Homel.

Several further films have been adapted from his work, including On the Verge of a Fever (Le Goût des jeunes filles) in 2004 and Heading South (Vers le sud) in 2005. He also wrote the original screenplays for Voodoo Taxi in 1991 and How to Conquer America in One Night (Comment conquérir l'Amérique en une nuit) in 2004, and was the director of the latter.

In 2009, Laferrière won the prestigious Prix Médicis for his 11th novel, L'énigme du retour. Upon receiving the prize, he commented on its ability to open up a new readership in France, giving him visibility there. In the past Laferrière had always refused to be published in the fall, a season associated with the great literary prizes, but had been recommended to do so with L'énigme du retour by his editors. The novel follows Laferrière as he returns to his birthplace in Haiti, 33 years after he left it, upon learning of his father's death in New York City. The narrative blurs the line between prose and poetry, resembling haiku structures in some sections.

On 12 December 2013, Laferrière was elected on the first round of balloting to Seat no. 2 of the Académie française, becoming the first Haitian, the first Canadian and the first Quebecer to receive that honour. He is the second black person to have been inducted, the first being Senegalese writer and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1983.

On 3 June 2014, he was awarded the International Literature Award by the House of World Cultures for his novel The Return (L'enigme du retour).

In 2014, he was appointed officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2015, Laferrière was awarded the Order of Canada with the grade of officer.

In 2016,  Laferrière won the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award for his literary achievements.

Laferrière lives in Miami, Florida.

Works

 Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer, 1985 (Éditions VLB)
 English translation How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired, 1987 (Coach House Press)
 Éroshima, 1987 (Éditions VLB)
 English translation Eroshima, 1991 (Coach House Press)
 L'odeur du café, 1991 (Éditions VLB)
 English translation An Aroma of Coffee, 1993 (Coach House Press)
 Le goût des jeunes filles, 1992 (Éditions VLB)
 English translation Dining with the Dictator, 1994 (Coach House Press)
 Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, 1993 (Éditions VLB), Prix RFO du livre (2002)
 English translation Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, 1994 (Coach House Press)
 Chronique de la dérive douce 1994 (Éditions VLB, poetry)
 English translation A Drifting Year, 1997 (Douglas & McIntyre)
 Pays sans chapeau, 1996 (Éditions Lanctôt)
 English translation Down Among the Dead Men, 1997 (Douglas & McIntyre)
 La chair du maître, 1997 (Éditions Lanctôt)
 Le charme des après-midi sans fin, 1997 (Éditions Lanctôt)
 Le cri des oiseaux fous, 2000 (Serpent à plumes)
 J'écris comme je vis ; Entretien avec Bernard Magnier, 2000 (Éditions La passe du vent)
 Je suis fatigué, 2000 (Les librairies initiales)
 Je suis fou de Vava, 2005 (Éditions de la Bagnole)
Pays sans chapeau, 2006 (Éditions du Boréal)
Vers le Sud, 2006 (Grasset) 
English translation Heading South, 2008 (Douglas & McIntyre)
 Je suis un écrivain japonais
 English translation I Am a Japanese Writer, 2010 (Douglas & McIntyre)
 La fête des morts, 2009 (Éditions de la Bagnole)
 L'énigme du retour, 2009 (Québec: Boréal, France: Grasset)
 English translation The Enigma of the Return, 2011 (Douglas & McIntyre)
 Tout bouge autour de moi, 2010 (Mémoire d'encrier)
 English translation "The World is Moving Around Me", 2013 (Arsenal Pulp Press)
 L'Art presque perdu de ne rien faire, 2011 (Boréal)
 Journal d'un écrivain en pyjama, 2013 (Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier)
 Tout ce qu'on ne te dira pas, Mongo, 2015 (Montréal: Mémoire d'encrier)

Further reading
Beniamin Vasile, Dany Laferrière: l'autodidacte et le processus de création, Paris: l'Harmattan, collection "Critiques Littéraires", 2008

References

External links

1953 births
Black Canadian filmmakers
Black Canadian writers
Canadian male novelists
20th-century Canadian poets
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian poets in French
Film directors from Montreal
Haitian Quebecers
Governor General's Award-winning children's writers
Haitian emigrants to Canada
Haitian male novelists
Writers from Montreal
Writers from Port-au-Prince
Prix Médicis winners
Members of the Académie Française
Living people
Canadian novelists in French
Canadian male poets
Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Officers of the Order of Canada
20th-century Haitian novelists
20th-century Haitian poets
21st-century Haitian novelists
21st-century Haitian poets
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
20th-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian screenwriters in French
Canadian children's writers in French
다니 라페리에르 (, 1953년 4월 13일 포르토프랭스 ~ )는 아이티의 작가이다. 열여덟 살 때부터 포르토프랭스의 신문과 라디오 방송에서 저널리스트로 일했으나, 스물세 살이던 1976년 독재 정권의 탄압을 피해 캐나다의 몬트리올로 망명했다.

1985년 첫 소설 『지치지 않고 흑인과 사랑하는 법Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer』을 출간한 이후 지금까지 20편에 이르는 소설과 시나리오를 쓰는 동안 정치적 프리즘이나 망명자의 시선에 얽매이지 않는 다양하고 독특한 작품 세계를 펼쳐 왔다. 데뷔작부터 프랑스어판과 영어판이 모두 베스트셀러가 되어 주목을 받았고, 2009년 『슬픔이 춤춘다L'énigme du retour』로 메디치상을 수상하며 전 세계적으로 이름을 알렸다.

2006년 발표하여 르노도상 후보에 오른 『남쪽으로』는 그림 속 낙원 같은 해변과 궁핍한 빈민가가 공존하는 아이티를 배경으로 우리 안에 숨겨진 본능과 욕망, 판타지, 그리고 금지된 것에 대한 갈망을 도발적으로 그린 라페리에르의 대표작이다. 특히 로랑 캉테 감독의 연출로 영화화되기도 한 「남쪽으로」라는 제목의 장은 욕망을 좇아 아이티로 온 중년 여성들의 이야기로 치명적 유혹이 있는 곳이야말로 낙원이 될 수 있다는, 그러나 한편으로는 그럼에도 낙원이 낙원인 것은 결코 닿을 수 없는 곳이기 때문이라는 사실을 일깨워 준다.

라페리에르는 자신이 펴낸 일련의 소설들을 <아메리카의 자서전>이라고 부른다. 이는 자신을 아프리카계의 프랑스어를 쓰는 서인도 제도의 한 작가로 한정하는 것을 거부하고, 스스로를 <아메리카>의 작가로 여기고자 하는 의지의 표현이다. 그러한 <아메리카의 자서전>의 다른 작품으로는 『커피 향기L'Odeur du café』, 『주인의 육체La Chair du maître』 등 10여 편이 있으며, 그 밖에 시나리오와 인터뷰집 등이 있다. 현재 그는 캐나다에 거주하며 활발한 작품 활동을 하고 있다.

수상 경력 
 1991년 Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe: 《커피 향기L'Odeur du café》
 1993년 Prix Edgar-Lespérance
 2009년 메디치상 슬픔이 춤춘다L'Énigme du retour》
 2009년 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal
 2010년 Personnalité de l'année 2009 La Presse/Radio-Canada
 2010년 Grand Prix Metropolis bleu|Grand Prix littéraire international Metropolis bleu
 2010년 Doctorat honorifique de l'Université du Québec à Rimouski

작품

소설

아메리카의 자서전 
 Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1985.
 Éroshima, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1987.
 L'Odeur du café, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1991 - Grasset, 2012.《커피향기》, 정신세계사, 1994
 Le goût des jeunes filles, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1992 (version revue par l'auteur, 2004).
 Cette grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit ?, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1993 (version revue par l'auteur, 2002).
 Chronique de la dérive douce, Montréal, VLB Éditeur, 1994.
 Pays sans chapeau, Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996, Montréal, Boréal "Compact", 2006.
 La Chair du maître, Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 1997.
 Le Charme des après-midi sans fin, Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 1997, Montréal, Boréal "Compact", 2010.
 Le Cri des oiseaux fous, Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 2000, Montréal, Boréal "Compact", 2010.
 Vers le sud, Montréal, Boréal, 2006. (Ce roman était en lice pour le Prix Renaudot 2006) 《남쪽으로》, 열린책들, 2012

기타 
 Je suis fatigué, Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 2001 (version revue et augmentée, 2005).
 Les années 1980 dans ma vieille Ford, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2005.
 Je suis fou de Vava, Montréal, Éditions de la Bagnole, 2006.
  La fête des morts, Éditions de la Bagnole, 2008
 Je suis un écrivain japonais, Montréal, Boréal, 2008 et Boréal "Compact", 2009.
 L'Énigme du retour, Montréal, Boréal, 2009 et Boréal "Compact", 2010 - Paris, Grasset, 2009.  《슬픔이 춤춘다》, 생각의 나무, 2009
 Tout bouge autour de moi, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2010 - Paris, Grasset, 2011.
 L'Art presque perdu de ne rien faire, Montréal, Boréal, 2011.

인터뷰 
 J'écris comme je vis, (avec Bernard Magnier), Outremont, Lanctôt Éditeur, 2000, Boréal "Compact", 2010.
 Conversations avec Dany Laferrière, Interviews de Ghila SROKA, Montréal, Éditions de la Parole Métèque, 2010.

시나리오 
 Comment conquérir l’Amérique en une nuit. Scénario de Dany Laferrière, publié chez Lanctôt Éditeur, en 2004 et chez Boréal en 2010. Film (long métrage) réalisé par Dany Laferrière et produit par Daniel Morin, en 2004.
 2004 Le Goût des jeunes filles (John L'Écuyer)

영화화 
Le film Vers le sud de Laurent Cantet avec Charlotte Rampling est adapté d'une de ses nouvelles.

아이티의 소설가
1953년 출생
살아있는 사람
포르토프랭스 출신