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Discover “The Dreams of a Seventy-Year-Old for Haiti,” 185 pages, by Roger Laplanche at the 32nd Livres en Folie, on June 4 at the El Rancho Convention Center, Pétion-Ville. A cry from the heart for the homeland.
In this year’s Haitian literary landscape, one work stands out for its frankness and analytical depth: “The Dreams of a Septuagenarian for Haiti.” Published by Éditions du CIDIHCA, this book is the work of architect Roger Laplanche, whose portrait on the cover suggests both the serenity of age and the gravity of the witness.
Born in 1948 and educated by the Fathers of the Petit Séminaire Collège St Martial, Roger Laplanche is not a salon theorist. His career as an architect and designer, forged between Haiti and Florida, led him to oversee crucial social housing and urban renewal projects funded by international institutions such as the World Bank and the German KFW. It is this technical expertise, combined with civic engagement through his own firm, that gives his analysis a particular rigor.
