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died Edouard Glissant, a poet least one angel more.

The recent passing away of the poet, novelist and essayist French West Indian Edouard Glissant, for these hours, mourning the literary field, was confirmed by representatives of Gilead editorial.

According to the press revealed Emmanuelle Collas, who serves as director of that label, this author who was born on February 21, 1928 died Yesterday morning in the French capital. According to his words, the writer had long suffered from some health problems but, nevertheless, remained active.

By transcending this sad news, the Minister of Culture Frederic Mitterrand reviewed his career and, recalling the figure who was, in 1958, won the Prix Renaudot , chose to define it as "a man of opening " that, by dint of commitment, sacrifice and work managed to become" one of the best representatives of native culture, West Indies and especially Martinique " .

Edouard Glissant, as you know those specialists in literature, devoted much of his life to promote solidarity among peoples, to promote respect for diversity and to defend and promote international culture Creole. founded in 2007 in Paris Institut du Tout-Monde, designed to implement its humanitarian principles and promoting the dissemination of the diversity of peoples.

From now on, but no longer can enrich their ideas and work to the field of culture, this prolific and respected exponent of the world of letters will be kept alive through the works he created throughout his life.

Born on the island of Martinique, Glissant developed the theory of "créolisation" and his novels, poems and essays addressed issues of slavery, racism and colonialism, questioning the identity postcolonial.

further stressed to maintain a strong cultural activism was part of the circles and literary and artistic forums emancipation of the black movement in the 50's and participated in the protests of the French left.


In 1958, his novel "The Lézarde" earned him the award Renaudot and released internationally this intellectual. In Castilian are translated, among others, his essays "The West Indian speech" or "Treaty of the all-world," the poems "Fasti and Other Poems" and the novel "The Lizard".