[Evénement] Bertony Louis at the University of Glasgow

Bertony Louis, Haitian poet

in conversation with Rachel Douglas

The University of Glasgow

Friday 10 March, 6-7 pm

Bertony Louis, Haitian poet and Artist Protection Fund poet-in-residence at the University of Glasgow, will feature in a Creative Conversations event with me, 6-7pm on Friday 10 March. The venue will be the Yudowitz Room of the Wolfson Building at the University of Glasgow. The event will also be streamed online and the zoom code will be made available once you sign up for the eventbrite registration, you will receive the Zoom link.

To attend in-person or online, please complete the short and free registration at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-conversations-bertony-louis-tickets-523062934317

Bertony is a prize-winning Haitian poet and he will be speaking about his work, which includes a very recent published collection Recoudre les horizons already completed during his time here in SMLC (we hope to be able to offer copies of the volume for sale at the event).

Everyone is welcome to come along. It would be lovely to see as many of you as possible for this special event.

Born in Delmas in 1994, Bertony Louis graduated in law from the École de Droit et des Sciences Économiques des Gonaïves. His poetry has been awarded a total of thirteen prizes in France, Italy, Spain and Cameroon, including the Premier Prix de la Société Des Gens de Lettres (France); the Special prize of the jury of 2020 Concorso Internazionale di Poesia e Teatro Castello di Duino (Italy) and a Special mention by the Prix Jean Bonicel d’Arcadia 2020 (France).

In 2019, Bertony Louis co-authored the collection Mille éclats de mots et autres brillances (Éditions Le Lys Bleu) with Niklovens Fransaint and he has also published work in the anthologies Florilège des écrivains en herbe, Plumes de la Sant Jordi and Florilège Ecole de la Loire. He is a member of the French literary association Le Cénacle des Treize. In December 2021, he was writer in residence at the Fundación Valparaíso, in Mojacar (Spain) and in March-April 2022, he was a writing fellow at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany).

Bertony is currently an Artist Protection Fund Writing Fellow in the UK, participating in a cultural exchange program at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow until October 2023.

Creative Conversations is funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Professor Thomas Ferguson (1900-1977), Henry Mechan Chair of Public Health (1944-64), bequeathed his estate to the University, with the instruction that the money should be used to foster the social side of University life.

All good wishes,

Rachel

Dr Rachel Douglas

Reader in French and Comparative Literature

University of Glasgow

Email: Rachel.Douglas@glasgow.ac.uk

Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellow, 31 August 2022 – 30 August 2023, https://rse.org.uk/rse-awards-half-a-million-pounds-in-research-funding-to-benefit-scotlands-cultural-economic-and-social-wellbeing/  

Latest article “Futures in the Presents: Decolonial Visions of the Haitian Revolution,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2022): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080574

Latest book Making The Black Jacobins: CLR James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press) available here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/making-the-black-jacobins

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