Author. Marie Vieux Chauvet was a Haitian author celebrated for her novels that broached subjects involving equality and justice, especially from a woman's point of view. Born Marie Vieux, she was the daughter of a Haitian politician, Constant Vieux, and his wife Delia Nones, from a Jewish family of the Caribbean island of Saint Thomas. She studied at the Annex of the École Normale d'Institutrices in Port-au-Prince, graduating with her teaching certificate in 1933. She had two daughters with her first husband, Dr. Aymon Charlier, and a son with her second husband, Pierre Chauvet. She married her third husband, Ted Proudfoot, in New York, where she died of cancer. Using the pseudonym of Colibri, she published a short play, "The Legend of Flowers," in 1947. Her major works were all published in France under her married name of Marie Chauvet, including her first three novels: "Fille d'Haïti" in 1954, "Dance on the Volcano" in 1957, and "Fonds des Nègres" in 1960. The historical novel, "Dance on the Volcano,” that has been published in two different English-language translations, is set in the turbulent time of the Haitian revolution, with Chauvet's trademark, central female protagonist. In these works, one finds her preoccupations with the social impact of colonialism, the corruption and excesses of the ruling class, and the injustices in Haitian society, including racial, sexual and religious hypocrisy and discrimination. She was a member of a group of prominent writers, "Haïti Littéraire," that often met at her home in the Bourdon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. As the political repression of the Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier's President for Life regime increased, most of these writers would flee Haiti. Chauvet responded with her pen, and published her trilogy, "Love, Anger, Madness" in fall 1968 with the prestigious French publisher Gallimard. The trilogy was highly critical of Haiti's 1960s political and social climate: the repressive dictatorship and its effects on the entire country, including the self-serving ruling class and Duvalier's henchmen, that she portrayed mercilessly, in her masterful command of the multiple registers of formal and vernacular French. With two of her nephews killed and one "disappeared," she accepted her family's request to cease distribution of the work, fearing retribution. Absent from Haiti at the time of the book's publication, she was never able to return. She was working on a subsequent work at the time of her death in 1973. Published after her death, under the name Marie Vieux, soon after the fall of the dictatorship in 1986, "Les Rapaces" was an unfinished, short trilogy of stories, but its publication brought renewed attention to the writer who was posthumously awarded Haiti's "Prix Deschamps" that year. Her works were nonetheless not published, and circulated only in rare copies or photocopies for over thirty years until a clandestine edition of the trilogy was published by "Voix des femmes" in 2003. When her heirs finally consented to republish her works, beginning with "Dance on the Volcano" in 2004 and the trilogy in 2005, they changed the author's surname to Vieux-Chauvet. By 2016, all of her major works had been republished in their original French, in both French and Haitian editions. Translations in many languages, including German, Italian and Spanish, began to be released in 2007. Her two major works available in English translation are the trilogy, "Love, Anger, Madness,” which was first published by Random House in 2009, and the second in 2016, the translation of "Dance on the Volcano." A seminal, twentieth century writer from Haiti, Marie Vieux Chauvet has only gained international recognition with the publication of her works in the twenty-first.