Daniel Maximin

Daniel Maximin was born in 1947 at Saint-Claude, in Guadeloupe, and spent five years studying literature at the Sorbonne after his baccalauréat, obtained in 1964. Literary director of the publishing house Présence africaine in the 1980s, he returned to Guadeloupe in 1989 as regional director of cultural affairs. His second novel, Soufrières, received the Caribbean literary prize in 1987; he has since published poems, a prize-winning childhood narrative in 2004, and essays. In 2010 he was appointed commissioner general of the Year of the Overseas Territories, celebrated in 2011.

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• NovelLone SunL'Isolé soleilDaniel Maximin · 1981Literature