René Depestre Honored at the Lagrasse Book Banquet Ahead of His 102nd Birthday

A tribute to the “so-called” centenarian provided an opportunity to pay him a memorable visit in Lézignan-Corbières. Le Nouvelliste had passed through there a year earlier…

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René Depestre Honored at the Lagrasse Book Banquet Ahead of His 102nd Birthday

René Depestre découvrant le premier roman de Thélyson Oriol, à paraître chez Grasset le 19 août dont le personnage cite le poète à plusieurs reprises
Photo : Valérie Marin La Meslée

It was a year ago when Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of this newspaper, called me to ask how he could get in touch with René Depestre, knowing that I visit him regularly, or at least check in on him from time to time.

While passing through France, the journalist indeed wanted to meet him, as he was preparing to celebrate his centenary in Haiti, which, as everyone believes, will take place on August 29, 2026.

Yet, just as he had told me when I came to greet him some time earlier during the summer of 2025, after leav

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