Alix Renaud (30 August 1945 – 11 April 2021) was a Haitian-born Canadian writer. He was the son of Joseph M. Renaud and Béatrix Black. He was a professor of oral expression and diction, and he was the inventor of the word pompion, meaning firefighter and stemming from the French word pompier of the same meaning. He became a member of the in 2010.
Distinctions
Lauréat du prix Charles-Biddle (2007) (2012)
Publications
Novels
Le Mari (1980) Merdiland, Le Temps parallèle (1983) Dix secondes de sursis, La liberté et Le Temps parallèle (1983) À corps joie (1985) Snesnob (1987) Compère Jacques Soleil (1998) Ovation (1999) Grand Roi et Petit Fou (2009) Traverses (2010) La femme avant Ève (2011)
Linguistics
Dictionnaire de l'audiophonie (1981) Dictionnaire anglais-français des additifs alimentaires (1990) Pale kreyòl (1993) Tande kreyòl la byen (1998) Mots étrangers, mots français (2006) Sudoku-mots (2007)
Poetry
Le Troc mystérieux (1970) Carême (1972) De ma fenêtre... (1974) Exase exacte (1976) Grâces (1976) Dulcamara (1992) Chair bohème (2009)