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Jacques Roumain was born on 4 June, 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is an A haitian male novelist. Discover Jacques Roumain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?

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Occupation Writer, politician, Poet, Socialist, anthropologist, Ethnologist
Age 37 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 4 June, 1907
Birthday 4 June
Birthplace Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Date of death 1907:6:4, August 18, 1944
Died Place N/A
Nationality Haiti

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1907

Jacques Roumain (June 4, 1907 – August 18, 1944) was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism.

He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature.

Poet Langston Hughes, an African-American, translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew).

It was also adapted to film.

Roumain was born on June 4, 1907, in Port-au-Prince to wealthy parents.

1912

His grandfather, Tancrède Auguste, served as the President of Haiti from 1912 to 1913.

He was educated in Catholic schools in Port-au-Prince, and, later, in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany and Spain.

At twenty years old, he returned to Haiti and formed La Revue Indigene: Les Arts et La Vie (The Indigenous Review: Arts and Life), along with Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, Carl Brouard, and Antonio Vieux.

He was active in the struggle against the United States' occupation of Haiti.

1934

In 1934 he founded the Haitian Communist Party.

Because of some of his political activities, his participation in the resistance movement against the United States' occupation, and most notably, his creation of the Haitian Communist Party, he was often arrested and finally exiled by then President Sténio Vincent.

During his years in exile, Roumain worked with and befriended many prominent pan-African writers and poets of the time, including Langston Hughes.

During this time he was also affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, where he conducted ethnographical research.

With a change in government in Haiti, Roumain was allowed to return to his native country.

Upon returning, he founded the Office of Ethnology.

1943

In 1943, President Élie Lescot appointed him chargé d'affaires in Mexico, where his newly found creative freedom permitted him to complete two of his most influential books, the poetry collection Bois D'ébène (Ebony Wood) and the novel, Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew).

He also published that year the seminal paper "Lithic Workshop of the Ciboney of Haiti," and as a result was regarded as the father of Haitian archaeology.

Much of Roumain's work expresses the frustration and rage of people who have been downtrodden for centuries.

He included the mass of the people in his writing and called on the poor union to move against privation.

1944

On August 18, 1944, Jacques Roumain, one of Haiti's most respected and complex writers, died of still unknown causes at age 37.

Roumain created some of the most colorful, dynamic, and moving poetry of his generation.

His writings continue to influence and shape Haitian culture and the pan-African world of today.

By the time of his death, Roumain had become an acclaimed writer in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe.

His great novel, Gouverneurs de la Rosée, has achieved a permanent place among great Caribbean and Latin American literature.

It is a novel that is still studied at universities, read by new generations, and acted out by theatrical groups.

"What are we? Since that's your question, I'm going to answer you. We're this country, and it wouldn't be a thing without us, nothing at all. Who does the planting? Who does the watering? Who does the harvesting? Coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, caco, corn, bananas, vegetables, and all the fruits, who's going to grow them if we don't? Yet with all that, we're poor, that's true. We're out of luck, that's true. We're miserable, that's true. But do you know why, brother? Because of our ignorance. We don't know yet what a force we are, what a single force - all the peasants, all the Negroes of the plain and hill, all united. Some day, when we get wise to that, we'll rise up from one end of the country to the other. Then we'll call a General Assembly of the Masters of the Dew, a great big coumbite of farmers and we'll clear out poverty and plant a new life. --'Masters of the Dew', p. 106"

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