Roussan Camille
Roussan Camille (27 August 1912 – 7 December 1961) was a Haitian poet, journalist, and diplomat. Biography
Born in Jacmel, he was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, the Lycée Pinchinat of Jacmel and the Tippenhauer College in Port-au-Prince. Under Charles Moravia's directorship, he began a career as a journalist, publishing articles, poems and the column "Bel aujourd'hui" under his pen-name Nassour El Limac, in Haiti-Journal, Temps-Revue and L'Action nationale. He became director of Haiti-Journal after Moravia's death in 1938. Camille entered public service, and was appointed to several diplomatic functions, including secretary of the Haitian legation to Paris and Haitian vice-consul in New York City, and then returned home to become secretary general in the ministry of health. His best known work is Assaut à la Nuit (Port-au-Prince: Impr. de l'Etat, 1940). He was awarded the Dumarsais Estimé poetry prize for his collection Multiple Présence (Quebec: Editions Naaman, 1978). Awards
 1961 Price Dumarsais Estimé. 2004 Henri Deschamps Literary Award (posthumous). References

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Further reading
 F. Raphaël Berrou and Pradel Pompilus, Histoire de la littérature haïtienne illustrée par les textes, vol. 3 (1977), 237–252. 1912 births
1961 deaths
20th-century Haitian poets
20th-century journalists
20th-century male writers
Haitian diplomats
Haitian journalists
Haitian male poets
People from Jacmel