Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall

Who was Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall?

Marie-Thérèse Colimon-Hall, born Marie-Thérèse Colimon, was a Haitian writer.

Born in Port-au-Prince, Coliman began her writing career as a playwright and published five plays between 1949 and 1960. In 1974 she published her first and most well-known novel, Fils de Misère. She also wrote essays, short stories, and children's literature. Colimon's keen observations of the Haitian people's struggle against poverty gave a particularly poignancy to her work, as demonstrated by Fils de Misère. In Les Chants des sirenes, her collection of short stories, she explored the painful impact of the Haitian diaspora on both the individuals in exile and the Haitian community.