Gary Klang

Gary Klang (born December 28, 1941, in Port-au-Prince Haiti), is a Haitian-Canadian poet and novelist.

He left Haiti in the 1960s, at the worst time of the Duvalier's dictatorship.

In Paris where he went, he received a PhD in literature at Sorbonne University.

His thesis is on Marcel Proust, the famous French novelist.

It was in France that Gary met Maggy, the French student from Brittany who later became his wife.

In 1973, they left together for Canada where they settled in Montreal.

At first, Gary has been a professor of stylistics at the Université de Montréal.

But, as he never like teaching, he changed hat and became a translator at the famous Engineering firm SNC-Lavalin.

On July 14, 2000, "l'Union Française à Montréal" (the French Union of Montreal) chose Gary as the promoter of the French national holiday marking the storming of the Bastille.

The same day, the same French Union participated in the launch of his collection of verses "La terre est vide comme une étoile".

Gary Klang is also a member of the "Association des Ecrivains Québécois (UNEQ)" (Association of Quebec's writers), a member of the "Association des Ecrivains de langue française" (Association of writers of French origin) and of the PEN Club of Montreal.

He was nominated for the Haitian grand Literary Prize of 2004, together with Edwidge Danticat, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Dany Laferrière, Josaphat-Robert Large and Leslie Manigat (Ex President of Haiti, the winner of the Prize).

Gary Klang graduated from the "Institution Saint-Louis de Gonzague" in Port-au-Prince.

He retired from that position in 2006.

Gary is very active in the French literary world.

He participated in festivals in Mali

Since 2007, he is the president of the prestigious "Conseil des Écrivains francophones d'Amérique" (Council of America's francophone writers).

Klang's work is very rich.

It includes novels, poetry, short stories and essays.

(2007), Benin (2009) and Haiti (2007), not to mention Canada (Festival des Trois-Rivières) (2008)