Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie

Suzanne Dracius (born August 25, 1951) in Fort-de-France, in the Terres-Sainville district) is a French writer from Martinique.

Biography After studying at the Lycée Marie-Curie in Sceaux and at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Dracius taught in Paris, then at the University of the French Antilles and in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and the University of Ohio.

Suzanne Dracius defines herself as a , a creole word meaning a light skinned mixed race person; she claims African, European, Indian, Caribbean and Chinese ancestry. She has made the fight against any kind of racial, sexual or social discrimination the issue and the subject of her writing. Her books and have been translated into English as Climb to the Sky and The dancing other, and Italian; also an anthology of poetry, Calazaza's delicious dereliction : poems.

Work Novels , Seghers, 1989 ; reissued by Editions du Rocher, 2007 , Desnel, 2003

Short stories , collection of short stories, , No. 15), 1992; reprinted in pocket format, 1995. , in , Houghton-Mifflin, 1995, , in , Houghton-Mifflin, 2000, second edition, pp. 64–76 , short story, in under the direction of Aurélien Boivin et de Bruno Dufour, ed. , 2008,

Poetry and (Creole and French versions), , MicRomania (coll.) No. 3, 1992; No. 5, 1993 (collective) Desnel, 2005 (collective, coordinated by), Desnel, 2006 , Desnel, 2008 (collective, coordinated by), Desnel, 2010 , Idem, 2014 , éditions Idem, 2016

Plays , fabulodrama, Desnel, 2005; first performed at the prefecture of Fort-de-France in 2000, then the Festival du Marin (2002), revived under the patronage of TV5 at the opening ceremony of the AATF symposium (Association of American Teachers of French) in a production by the author (Trois-Îlets, 2003)

Essays, children's and youth literature and fine books (with Pierre Pinalie), ed. Hugues Hayot, 1994 (illustrations by Choko), Desnel, 2006 My Little Book of London / (bilingual text), Desnel, 2008 , International Journal of Francophone Studies Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2, edited by Adlai Murdoch (UIUC) and Jane Kuntz (UIUC), 2008 , ed. Intellect Ltd., Bristol, UK (collective), L’Harmattan, 2009 In Search of Suzanne Césaire's Garden », in Research in African Literatures, vol. 41, No 1 (Spring 2010), Indiana University Press, The Ohio State University

Awards and literary prizes 1989 : finalist for the Prix du Premier Roman. 2003 : Awarded honorary membership of the AATF 2003 : was given the "" awarded by FNAC. 2004 : Awarded honorary membership of the Foreign Language Honor Society of Ohio University. 2005 : Prix Littéraire Fetkann / Mémoire du Sud, mémoire de l’humanité for . 8 March 2006 (International Women's Day): Médaille d’honneur de Schœlcher for . 2009 : Prix Littéraire Fetkann for . 2010 : in recognition of her life's work. 2019 : .