Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Foto: Louis-Philippe Dalembert © Tamara Ulrich
© Tamara Ulrich
Louis-Philippe Dalembert was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and is one of the greatest writers of his generation. Author of over twenty novels, he has for the last thirty years been moving back and forth from his native country to countries such as France, Italy, the United States, Germany, and Israel. He has received much recognition for his work. Among many other things, he is a past fellow at the Villa Medici in Rome, a Knight of Art and Writing in France, he had been a guest at the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD, and he received the Prix Casa de las Américas à Cuba. His works, highly praised by critics, have been translated into more than ten languages. Furthermore, Louis-Phiippe Dalembert has a degree from the Ecole normale supérieure at Post-au-Prince, a degree in journalism in Paris and he is the author of a doctoral thesis in comparative literature about the Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle). He was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2013) and O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Scripps College, California (2014).


Events spring term 2015

Seminary

Dr. Louis-Philippe Dalembert, author, Haiti

Date: wednesdays
Time: 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Location: Universität Bern, Unitobler, Hörraum 007

Seminary

Kick-off Event

Dr. Louis-Philippe Dalembert, author, Haiti

Date: March 11, 2015
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: Haus der Universität, Schlösslistrasse 5 Bern

Kick-off Event

Projection du film Divine Horsemen: The Livings Gods of Haiti de Maya Deren, dans le cadre duséminaire “Entre peinture et littérature:une représentation du vaudou haïtien”

Dr. Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Schriftsteller, Haiti

Date: March 26, 2015
Time: 6:15 pm
Location: Universität Bern, Unitobler, Salle F005

Seminary

La représentation du vaudou haïtien dans l’oeuvre de l’écrivain allemand Hans Christoph Buch

Hans Christoph Buch, Écrivain allemand, Berlin

Date: April 1, 2015
Time: 2:15 – 3:45 pm
Location: Universität Bern, Unitobler, Salle F-123

Seminary

Littérature et vagabondisme

Dr. Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Schriftsteller, Haiti
Wendy Law-Yone, Schriftstellerin, Burma

Date: April 27, 2015
Time: 2:15 – 7:00 pm
Location: Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Seminarraum 331

Seminary

Lecture-débat avec l’écrivain haïtien Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Dr. Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Schriftsteller, Haiti
Modération: Prof. Dr. Patrick Suter, Université de Berne

Date: May 12, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: ONO Das Kulturlokal, Kramgasse 6, 3011 Bern

Lecture