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Franktienne is a writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. is recognized as one of Haitis leading writers and playwrights of both French and Haitian Creole, and is known as the father of Haitian letters. As a painter, he is known for his colorful abstract works, often emphasizing the colors blue and red. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009, made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres , and was named UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010.

Franktienne was born in RavineSche, a small village in Haiti. He was abandoned by his father, a rich American industrialist, at a young age and was raised by his mother in the Bel Air neighborhood of PortauPrince, where she worked as a street merchant to support her eight children, managing to send him, who was the eldest, to school.

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