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2013-12-12

Dany Laferrière is elected to the Académie française on the first ballot

Haitian

On Thursday 12 December 2013 Dany Laferrière was elected to the Académie française in the very first round — the first Haitian and the first Quebecer to enter it. At sixty he was the youngest member of the institution. He took seat number two, which had belonged to Montesquieu and later to Alexandre Dumas, succeeding the Argentine writer Hector Bianciotti.

Source Researched: Le Nouvelliste