A Haitian Novelist Who Came Of Age In Canada Is The First Non-French Citizen Inducted Into Academie Française

Dany Laferrière “wore the signature costume of academicians: a black tailcoat embroidered with green olive branches that in his case a Montreal embroiderer spent 500 hours sewing, and a metal sword specially made by a Haitian sculptor with references to Legba, the Voodoo deity of crossroads.”

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