Jean Métellus is born at Jacmel, future neurologist and novelist both

Jean Métellus was born at Jacmel on 30 April 1937 and did his classical studies there. He taught mathematics at the Lycée Célie Lamour until 1959, then left Haiti two years into the Duvalier era. He took a medical doctorate in Paris in 1970 and a doctorate in linguistics as well, and practised as a neurologist while writing the novels and poems that made his name.