Marie-Reine de Jaham

Marie-Reine de Jaham (born February 7, 1940) is a Martiniquais writer. ^[1]

Descended from French planters, she is the granddaughter of Victor Depaz  [ fr ] and the first cousin twice removed of Joséphine de Beauharnais. At the age of 17, she married and moved with her husband to the United States. There, she began a career in advertising in New York City; she later moved to Paris, where she founded her own agency. In 1990, she established a Creole cultural association, Le Patrimoine Créole. ^[1] She is considered one of the best-informed experts on Creole culture. ^[2] de Jaham moved to Nice in 2000. There, she established the Cercle Méditerranée Caraïbe with the aim of establishing links between the Mediterranean region and the Caribbean. ^[1]

In 1989, she published her first novel La Grande Béké, which became a bestseller and was adapted for television in 1998. In 1991, she published a second novel Le Maître-savane which continued the story begun in her first novel. ^[1]

In 1996, de Jaham was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. ^[1] She was promoted officer in january 2013 ^[3]

Selected works

Source: ^[1]

• Les desserts créoles et leur complice le sucre de canne, cook book (1992)
• L’Or des îles (1996), Le Sang du volcan (1997), Les Héritiers du paradis. (1998): trilogy, the first volume received the Prix Arc-en-ciel and the first two volumes received the Prix littéraire des Caraïbes from the Association des écrivains de langue française  [ fr ]
• Bwa bandé, novel (1999)
• Le Sortilège des marassa, novel (2001)
• La cuisine créole de Da Doudou, cook book (2004)
• La Véranda créole, novel (2005)
• a Caravelle Liberté, novel (2007)

References

1. "Marie-Reine de Jaham". ile en ile (in French). 4 December 2007.
2. "Marie-Reine de Jaham". Encyclopédie Larousse en ligne (in French).
3. "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres janvier 2013".

External links

• Marie-Reine de Jaham at IMDb