Rodney Saint-Éloi
Poet, writer, essayist and editor born in Cavaillon, Haiti, Rodney Saint-Éloi is the author of some fifteen books of poetry, including Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé (2015, finalist for the Prix des Libraires and the Governor General’s Award) and Jacques Roche, je t’écris cette lettre (2013, finalist for the Governor General’s Award).
An anthology of his poetry has been published in France under the title Nous ne trahirons pas le poème et autres recueils (Éditions Points, 2021). He has also edited several anthologies, and in 2010 published Haïti Kenbe la! with a preface by Yasmina Khadra (Éditions Michel Lafon).
His stage credits include Les bruits du monde and Cabarets Roumain, Senghor, Césaire and Frankétienne. He is the author of the essay Passion Haïti (Septentrion, 2016).
In 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles-Biddle, and in 2015 was inducted into the Académie des lettres du Québec. In 2019, he became a Compagnon de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, and in 2021, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République française.
He heads the publishing house Mémoire d’encrier, which he founded in 2003 in Montreal. Published in 2021, Les racistes n’ont jamais vu la mer, which he co-wrote with Yara El-Ghadban, was a finalist for the Prix des libraires 2022.
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