René Philoctète (born 1932, Port-au-Prince; died 1995, Port-au-Prince) was a Haitian poet, playwright, and novelist.
He is best known as one of the three co-founders of Spiralism alongside Frankétienne and Jean-Claude Fignolé — the avant-garde literary movement launched in Haiti in 1965 that used spiral, non-linear narrative as both a formal principle and a political strategy under Duvalierism.
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1937-10
1937 Parsley Massacre
parsley-massacre — the historical event at the core of *Le Peuple des Terres Mêlées*