Haitian Writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert Is Visiting Professor at Freie Universität Berlin

Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature during 2018/2019 Winter Semester. No 281/2018 from Oct 19, 2018 The Haitian poet and writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert is the 40th Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor of Literature at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the 2018/2019 winter semester. Dalembert is the author of eight collections of poetry, three books of short stories, two collections of essays, and nine novels, one of which was published in Haitian Creole. In addition to his writing, he sporadically teaches at several universities. In his inaugural lecture on October 24 at 6 p.m. in the Seminar Center on Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, Dalembert will tell about "Writing since Childhood." The lecture will be in English. It is public, and admission is free. As the 40th Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor, Louis-Philippe Dalembert will teach a seminar entitled Littérature et Histoire at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature during the 2018/2019 winter semester.