Lilas Desquiron
Lilas Desquiron (born 1946) is a Haitian-born writer and ethnologist. From 2001 to 2004, she served as Minister of Culture and Communications in the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.[1]
She was born in Port-au-Prince; her family came from Jérémie. From 1966 to 1970, she studied ethnology in Brussels and Paris, specializing in Afro-American religions. She later returned to France.[1]
Works[edit]
- Racines de voudou, essay (1990)[1]
- Les chemins de Loco-Miroir, novel (1990), translated into English as Reflections of Loko Miwa (1998)[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Lilas Desquiron". ile en ile (in French). 4 December 2013.
Categories:
- 1946 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Haitian novelists
- Government ministers of Haiti
- Haitian expatriates in France
- People from Port-au-Prince
- Women government ministers of Haiti
- Haitian women novelists
- 20th-century Haitian women writers
- 21st-century Haitian women politicians
- 21st-century Haitian politicians
- Haitian writer stubs