Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Haiti Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A novelist, poet and activist whose Masters of the Dew is the best-known Haitian novel.
Roumain founded the Haitian Bureau of Ethnology and the Communist Party of Haiti and was imprisoned for his politics. Gouverneurs de la rosée, published after his death in 1944, tells of a peasant community brought together by the search for water.
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