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Dany Laferrière

Haitian writer, painter and filmmaker (born 1953)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Windsor Klébert Laferrière, known as Dany Laferrière is a writer, painter and filmmaker. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française on 12 December 2013, and inducted in May 2015. Born in Haiti, he lives between Montreal and Paris.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dany Laferrière” is haitian writer, painter and filmmaker (born 1953). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dany, Laferrière and Haitian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dany, Laferrière and Haitian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dany Laferrière” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.