Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Haiti Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A novelist whose trilogy Amour, colère et folie (1968) depicted life under dictatorship so directly that it was suppressed.
Fearing for her family under François Duvalier, Vieux-Chauvet left for New York, and the trilogy was not widely available until decades later.
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