Livres en Foile is one of Haiti’s main cultural events, is among the major of its kind in the region, and this year’s edition features writers Louis Philippe Dalembert and Pierre Raymond Dumas as guests of honor.

Dalembert has an extensive work in prose, poetry and essays, in addition to winning distinguished awards such as RFO (1999), Casa de las Americas (2008) and Prix Thyde Monnier of the Society of People of Letters (2013), among others.

His books have been translated into several languages.

For his part, Pierre Raymond Dumas is also a writer and journalist for Le Nouvelliste newspaper, a professor of literature and social sciences, and collaborated for significant publications such as Haiti Liberee, Conjonction magazine, Clarte Magazine, Le Matin newspaper, as well as Le Rouleau, L’Information and Le Courrier du Nord-Ouest magazines.

Livres en Foile was created in 1995 on the initiative of Le Nouvelliste, Haiti’s leading newspaper, and it is considered one of the country’s major cultural events, after allowing that dozens of writers can share their texts.

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