Dany Laferrière

Dany Laferrière, born Windsor Klébert Laferrière in Haiti in 1953, is a writer, painter and filmmaker who lives between Montreal and Paris. His fiction includes I Am a Japanese Writer, a work of literary fiction with a touch of magical realism, and The Return, along with A Drifting Year and How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired. He was elected to seat 2 of the Académie française in December 2013 and was inducted in May 2015.