Oswald Durand

Oswald Durand was born on 17 September 1840, in Cap-Haïtien according to Les Phares haïtiens, in Saint-Louis-du-Nord according to other sources. His parents died in the earthquake of 1842, and his maternal grandmother raised him. A tinsmith on leaving school according to Les Phares haïtiens, he was self-taught, taught, then lived by journalism. He married the poet Virginie Sampeur, from whom he divorced. Imprisoned in 1883 for his political ideas, he was elected deputy in 1885, re-elected six times, and presided over the Chamber in 1888. He died in Port-au-Prince in April 1906.

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• PoetryRires et pleursOswald Durand · 1896not translated into EnglishLiterature