SEPTEMBER 16: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Marie Vieux-Chauvet

Marie Vieux-Chauvet, a Haitian novelist, poet and playwright, was born today in 1916. She is most famous works for the novels Fille d'Haïti (1954), La Danse sur le Volcan (1957), Fonds des Nègres (1961), and Amour, Colère, Folie (1969).

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