Simple Stories

“Trouillot conjures a vibrant community…In sparsely simple, never simplistic stories, Trouillot intriguingly, poignantly centers ‘the wounded and the outcast, who have a right to revenge and sometimes take it, if only in words.’” —Booklist (starred review)Praise for Antoine of Gommiers:“With Antoine of Gommiers, Trouillot proposes a dialectic that explains the crisis not only in Haiti but also in the modern world…and asks us to learn to merge our dreams in order to live harmoniously.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“A book about the quest for the Haitian identity, both a magic tale and a painful everyday life account, between prosaicness and lyricism.” —France Culture

Lyonel Trouillot is a Haitian novelist, poet, journalist, and teacher of French and Creole literature. For his novel La Belle Amour humaine, he was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Metis, the Geneva Book Fair Literary Prize, and the Gitanjali Literary Prize. Trouillot was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2010. Having lived in exile in Miami for several years, he has now returned to Haiti and lives in Port-au-Prince.

Willard Wood grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

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