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1922: Jacques Stéphen Alexis was born at Gonaïves into a family with a strong literary and political tradition.

1922: Jacques Stéphen Alexis was born at Gonaïves into a family with a strong literary and political tradition. He would later become a leading Marxist novelist and the theorist behind the concept of “marvelous realism.”

Source  ·  p. 203 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 203