Jacques Roumain

haiti, author, masters of the dew, combite, ethnology

Born Jun 04, 1907

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Passed Away Aug 18, 1944 Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Lifespan 37 years old

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"We are poor, that is true, but we are a force that rises like morning water."

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Acclaimed Haitian novelist, poet, ethnologist, and founder of the Haitian Communist Party, author of 'Masters of the Dew'.

Biographical Record

Jacques Roumain was one of Haiti's greatest 20th-century novelists and political thinkers, celebrated for his profound commitment to peasant solidarity and Marxist humanism.

In 1934, Roumain founded the Haitian Communist Party, enduring political imprisonment and exile in Europe and Cuba. An accomplished anthropologist, he founded the Bureau of Ethnology in Haiti in 1941 to preserve indigenous and Afro-Haitian material culture.

His posthumously published masterpiece 'Gouverneurs de la Rosée' (Masters of the Dew, 1944) became a worldwide classic of peasant resistance, communal labor (combite), and romantic socialist realism, translated into over twenty languages.

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Port-au-Prince Cemetery
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

                         GPS: 18.5392, -72.3364                    

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