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Édouard Glissant
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Édouard Glissant was born in Sainte-Marie, Martinique in 1928.
He was educated at the Sorbonne and worked closely with the poet Aimé Césaire, who founded the Négritude movement.
Glissant has twice been a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature as
well as the recipient of both the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Charles
Veillon in France. His works include the play Monsieur Toussaint as well as Poetics of Relation, Caribbean Discourse, Faulkner Mississippi, and the novel Fourth Century. A complete edition of his Collected Poems was published last year.
Glissant currently serves as Distinguished Professor of French at City University of New York, Graduate Center.
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