Dany Laferriere (born Windsor Kleber Laferriere), novelist and journalist, tv host at QSC network in Canada. First Haitian, first Canadian, first Quebecer elected to Seat at the Academie Francaise in 2013 and inducted in 2015. Most famous published works: Comment faire l’amour avec un negre sans se fatiguer; L’enigme du retour which earned the Prix Medicis in 2009 and International Literature Award by the House of Word Cultures in 2014; appointed National Order of Quebec in 2014 and National Officer of Canada in 2015; winner of the Martin Luther King Junior Achievement Award in 2016.
