DANIEL
THALY
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NAME
Daniel Thaly
Also known as Dr. Daniel Thaly
BORN:
Daniel Thaly
2nd December, 1879
Roseau, Dominica
PROFESSION
Doctor, curator
FAMILY
PARENTS:
? Thaly (Martinique) and Solange Thaly née Bellot (Dominica)
SIBLINGS:
EDUCATION
Lycée St. Pierre, Martinique | |
Studied medicine in Toulouse, France |
DEGREES: | |
Doctor of medicine, Toulouse, France |
CAREER
Archivist, Schoelcher Library, Fort-de-France, Martinique | |
Curator, Victoria Museum, Roseau, Dominica | |
Published 10 volumes of poetry, contributed to several magazines like the Parisian Mercure de France, and the Canadian Canada-West Indies Magazine |
WORKS
POETRY BOOKS | |
1900 | Lucioles et Cantharides (Fireflies and Cantharides), Ollendorf |
1905 | La Clarté du sud (The Clarity of the South), Société Provinciale d'Éditions |
1911 | Le jardin des tropiques (The Garden of the Tropics), Éditions de Beffroi |
Chansons de mer et d'outre mer (Songs of the Sea and Overseas), Éditions de la Phalange | |
1913 | Nostalgies françaises (French Nostalgia), Éditions de la Phalange |
1923 | L'Ile et le voyage, petite odyssée d'un poète lointain (The Island and the Voyage), Le Divan |
1928 | Chants de l’Atlantique (Songs of the Atlantic), Garnier |
1932 | Héliotrope ou Les amants innconnus (Heliotrope or Other Unknown Lovers), Le Divan |
POEMS | |
L’île Lointaine |
NOTABLE
He is lauded and studied by French West Indians as one of the pioneers of the Nègritude movement (literary self-awareness movementhis works are studied along with that of Aimé Césaire among others | |
Owned Hertford Estate (now known as Jimmit); lived in the house at the corner on Great George and Hillsborough streets (now branch of the Wesley High School) | |
Avid bird watcher, recorded many Dominican birds |
DIED
1st October, 1950
Dominica