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Dany Laferriere in Haiti
Haitian-born Canadian novelist and journalist Dany Laferrière was in Haiti for a festival when the earthquake struck. Laferrière won a major French literary award, le Prix Médicis, in 2009 for his 11th novel, L'énigme du retour (The Enigma of Return).

Christine Rousseau of the French newspaper Le Monde interviewed him on January 15 after he returned to his home in Montréal. In the interview, Laferrière makes some important points on how foreigners and foreign media perceive events in Haiti.

The original interview in French is on the web site of Le Monde:
http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2010/01/16/haiti-le-temoignage-bouleversant-de-l-ecrivain-dany-laferriere_1292475_3222.html

You can also read the English version on the web site of The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crossover-dreams/haitian-writer-dany-lafer_b_426365.html
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