Patrick Chamoiseau is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose multifaceted oeuvre, translated worldwide, has won numerous prizes including the Prix Goncourt (1992), the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe (1993), and the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar (2023). His work involves an aesthetic exploration of creolization and of relational poetics in the contemporary world. He is widely recognized as one of the most important literary figures of the Caribbean and a major writer in the international arena.
Chamoiseau will serve as a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of French and Italian in Fall 2024. He will co-teach a graduate seminar with Thomas Trezise (French and Italian) on the literature and culture of the Caribbean.
