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Yanick Lahens was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. After attending school and university in France, she returned to Haiti., where she taught literature at the university in Port-au-Prince and worked for the Ministry of Culture. Her first novel was published in 2000, and she won the prestigious Prix Femina for Moonbath in 2014. won a 2015 French Voices Award.
Winner of the Prix Femina, 2014Winner of a French Voices Award, 2016 [Lahens] describes her country with a forceful beauty  the destruction that befell it, political opportunism, families torn apart, and the spellbinding words of Haitian farmers who solely rely on subterranean powers.  Donyapress In the Haitian tradition of the rural novel [ ] Yanick Lahens' Moonbath establishes itself by its grand and lucid beauty.  Le Point Lahens's ambitious fresco of twentieth-century Haiti through the eyes of peasants depicts the first generation with Romain-like incision.  Robert H. McCormick Jr, World Literature Today Lahens is the most important living female Haitian author in French.  Christiane Makward A novel of violent beauty.  Le Monde One of the finest voices of Haitian contemporary literature.  L'Ob's Everything is there, the content, powerful, and the style, poetic.  Les Echos Winner of the Prix Femina, 2014Winner of a French Voices Award, 2016 [Lahens] describes her country with a forceful beauty - the destruction that befell it, political opportunism, families torn apart, and the spellbinding words of Haitian farmers who solely rely on subterranean powers. - Donyapress In the Haitian tradition of the rural novel [...] Yanick Lahens' Moonbath establishes itself by its grand and lucid beauty. - Le Point Lahens's ambitious fresco of twentieth-century Haiti through the eyes of peasants depicts the first generation with Romain-like incision. - Robert H. McCormick Jr, World Literature Today Lahens is the most important living female Haitian author in French. - Christiane Makward A novel of violent beauty. - Le Monde One of the finest voices of Haitian contemporary literature. - L'Ob's Everything is there, the content, powerful, and the style, poetic. - Les Echos
