Annie Desroy

Annie Desroy was the pseudonym of Anne-Marie Bourand, née Lerebours (1893-1948), a Haitian novelist, playwright and teacher. She is best known for her 1934 novel Le joug.

Life Anne-Marie Lerebours was born on May 4, 1893, in Port-au-Prince. Educated in Port-au-Prince, she became a teacher and Director of the Centre d'Etudes Universititaires, instructing girls in the first and second parts of the baccalaureate examination. She married Étienne Bourand. The dates of production are known for two of her plays, each a comedy in three acts: Et l'amour vient in 1921, and La cendra du passé in 1931.

Her novel Le Joug was published in an edition of only fifty copies. Myriam J. A. Chancy has praised its "complex treatment of the effects of the Occupation upon the Haitian psyche".

She died on October 2, 1948, in Port-au-Prince.

Works Le joug: roman [The Yoke: a novel]. Port-au-Prince: Imp. Modèle, 1934.