Monchoachi is a French writer, born in 1946 in Saint-Esprit, Martinique. In 2003, he won the Carbet Caribbean Prize and the Max Jacob Prize for . Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Waiting for Godot are among the plays he has translated into Martinican Creole.
Monchoachi is also the founder of Lakouzémi, a political magazine and an annual political and poetic meeting which ran from 2007 to 2009. Its three annual meeting days saw poets meet in cockfighting arenas to talk, dance, recite and exchange ideas.
In an interview with the political review site , he spoke about the significance of the timing of these events: 15 August – Ceremony at the Bois Caiman, 1791, First Saturday in December – Columbus' arrival in the Lesser Antilles, 1493, 18 June – Treaty of Basseterre between Europeans and Kalinagos recognising the Kalinago nation, 1660.
Works
In Martinician Creole
, La Ligue, 1980
, Impr. Libres, 1979
Éditions caribéennes, 1982
, Imprimerie Desormeaux, 1983
Samuel Beckett, , traduction de par Monchoachi, New legend, 2002
Samuel Beckett, , traduction de par Monchoachi, New legend, 2002
, avec Georges-Henri Léotin, Juliette Smeralda-Amon, Lakouasos, 2007
French
, Schœlcher, Presses universitaires créoles-GEREC ; Paris, l'Harmattan, 1992
, Bordeaux, William Blake & Co, 2002
, Sens, Obsidiane, 2002
, Atlantica, 2002
, Obsidiane 2012
, Obsidiane 2016
, Obsidiane 2021
, Lundimatin 2023
Bibliography
Georges-Henri Léotin, Monchoachi, preface by Raphaël Confiant, No. 72, 14 September 2016.