Suzanne Dracius Explained

Suzanne Dracius
Birth Date:	25 August 1951
Birth Place:	Fort-de-France
Alma Mater:	Sorbonne
Occupation:	Author, professor

Suzanne Dracius (born August 25, 1951) in Fort-de-France, in the Terres-Sainville district) is a French writer from Martinique.^[1]

Biography

After studying at the Lycée Marie-Curie in Sceaux and at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Dracius taught in Paris, then at the University of the French Antilles and in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and the University of Ohio.^[2]

Suzanne Dracius defines herself as a Kalazaza, a creole word meaning a light skinned mixed race person; she claims African, European, Indian, Caribbean and Chinese ancestry. She has made the fight against any kind of racial, sexual or social discrimination the issue and the subject of her writing.^[3] Her books French: L’Autre qui danse and French: Rue Monte au Ciel have been translated into English as Climb to the Sky and The dancing other, and Italian; also an anthology of poetry, Calazaza's delicious dereliction : poems.^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Work

Novels

French: L’Autre qui danse, Seghers, 1989 ; reissued by Editions du Rocher, 2007
French: Rue Monte au ciel, Desnel, 2003

Short stories

French: De sueur, de sucre et de sang, collection of short stories, French: Le Serpent à Plumes, No. 15), 1992; reprinted in pocket format, 1995.
French: La Virago, in French: Diversité: La Nouvelle Francophone, Houghton-Mifflin, 1995,
French: Montagne de feu, in French: Diversité: La Nouvelle Francophone, Houghton-Mifflin, 2000, second edition, pp. 64–76
French: La Langue de Molière sauce chien, short story, in French: Les Identités francophones, anthologie didactique under the direction of Aurélien Boivin et de Bruno Dufour, ed. French: Les Publications Québec français, Québec, 2008,

Poetry

Negzagonal and French: Moun le Sid (Creole and French versions), French: Éditions de Traditions et Parlers populaires de Wallonie-Bruxelles, MicRomania (coll.) No. 3, 1992; No. 5, 1993
French: Hurricane, cris d’Insulaires (collective) Desnel, 2005
French: Prosopopées urbaines (collective, coordinated by), Desnel, 2006
French: Exquise déréliction métisse, Desnel, 2008
French: Pour Haïti (collective, coordinated by), Desnel, 2010
French: Déictique féminitude insulaire, Idem, 2014
French: Scripta manent, éditions Idem, 2016

Plays

French: Lumina Sophie dite Surprise, fabulodrama, Desnel, 2005; first performed at the prefecture of Fort-de-France in 2000, then the Festival du Marin (2002), revived under the patronage of TV5 at the opening ceremony of the AATF symposium (Association of American Teachers of French) in a production by the author (Trois-Îlets, 2003)

Essays, children's and youth literature and fine books

French: Habitation Anse Latouche, la Vallée des Papillons (with Pierre Pinalie), ed. Hugues Hayot, 1994
French: Fables de La Fontaine avec adaptations créoles et sources antiques (illustrations by Choko), Desnel, 2006
My Little Book of London / French: Mon petit livre de Londres (bilingual text), Desnel, 2008
French: DOM : Départements à part entière ou entièrement à part ?, International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2, edited by Adlai Murdoch (UIUC) and Jane Kuntz (UIUC), 2008, ed. Intellect Ltd., Bristol, UK
French: La Crise de l’Outre-Mer français (collective), L’Harmattan, 2009
In Search of Suzanne Césaire's Garden », in Research in African Literatures, vol. 41, No 1 (Spring 2010), Indiana University Press, The Ohio State University

Awards and literary prizes

1989 : French: L'Autre qui danse finalist for the Prix du Premier Roman.
2003 : Awarded honorary membership of the AATF
2003 : French: Rue Monte au ciel was given the "French: Coup de cœur" awarded by FNAC.
2004 : Awarded honorary membership of the Foreign Language Honor Society of Ohio University.
2005 : Prix Littéraire Fetkann / Mémoire du Sud, mémoire de l’humanité for French: Hurricane, cris d’Insulaires.^[7]
8 March 2006 (International Women's Day): Médaille d’honneur de Schœlcher for French: Lumina Sophie dite Surprise.
2009 : Prix Littéraire Fetkann for French: Exquise déréliction métisse.
2010 : French: Prix de la Société des Poètes Français in recognition of her life's work.
2019 : French: Prix européen francophone Virgile [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]].^[8]

Notes and References

Web site: 2001-02-21 . Suzanne Dracius . https://web.archive.org/web/20220303091245/http://ile-en-ile.org/dracius/ . 2022-03-03 . 2022-03-31 . Île en île . fr-FR.
Edwards . Carole . 2011 . Entretien avec Suzanne Dracius : La Kalazaza gréco-latine . Women in French Studies . en . 19 . 1 . 120–132 . 10.1353/wfs.2011.0012 . 191473310 . 2166-5486.
Web site: Suzanne Dracius entre métissage culturel et quête d'identité - Suzanne Dracius Site officiel de l'écrivain . https://web.archive.org/web/20210415235827/http://suzannedracius.com/spip.php?article77 . 2021-04-15 . 2022-03-31 . www.suzannedracius.com.
Web site: Results for 'au:Dracius, Suzanne' > 'Italian' [WorldCat.org] ]. https://archive.today/20220331200304/https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Dracius,+Suzanne&dblist=638&fq=ln:ita&qt=facet_ln: . 2022-03-31 . 2022-03-31 . www.worldcat.org . en.
Web site: Results for 'au:Dracius, Suzanne' > 'English' [WorldCat.org] ]. https://archive.today/20220331233448/https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Dracius,+Suzanne&dblist=638&fq=ln:eng&qt=facet_ln: . 2022-03-31 . 2022-03-31 . www.worldcat.org . en.
Web site: Dracius . Suzanne . Women's Fantasies . https://web.archive.org/web/20210514135847/https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/womens-fantasies . 2021-05-14 . 2022-03-31 . Words Without Borders. November 2011 .
Web site: années . Prix Littéraire FETKANN ! • Il y a 12 . 2010-03-11 . Suzanne DRACIUS reçoit son Prix au Salon du Livre 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210412060113/http://site.prix-fetkann.fr/suzanne-dracius-recoit-son-prix-au-salon-du-livre-2010/ . 2021-04-12 . 2022-03-31 . Prix Littéraire Fetkann! . fr-FR.
Web site: Suzanne Dracius reçoit le prix Virgile du Cénacle européen . https://web.archive.org/web/20211207014501/https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/martinique/suzanne-dracius-recoit-prix-virgile-du-cenacle-europeen-719260.html . 2021-12-07 . 2022-03-31 . Martinique la 1ère . 10 June 2019 . fr-FR.