Black Republic of Letters

Georges Sylvain

Georges Sylvain (1866-1925) was a lawyer, poet and diplomat from Port-de-Paix in northern Haiti. He was the brother of Benito Sylvain. He famously contributed to the development of Haitian literature in 1901 by publishing the first major work using Haitian Creole, Cric? Crac!, a collection of fables. He opposed the U.S. Occupation of Haiti which began in 1915, but died in 1925 before he could see the occupation come to end.

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