How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired

About the Author

DANY LAFERRIÈRE was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. He worked as a journalist under Haiti’s notorious Duvalier regime before immigrating to Montreal in 1976. Laferrière is the author of fourteen novels and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix RFO du Livre 2002, Le Grand Prix de la ville de Montréal 2009, the first Prix Carbet des lyceens and the Governor General’s Award. How to Make Love to a Negro, originally published in French in 1985, was his first novel and later adapted into a Genie Award— nominated film. Laferrière’s other novels include Heading South, I Am a Japanese Writer and the international bestseller L’énigme du retour, which won the prestigious Prix Médicis in 2009. Laferrière lives in Montreal.