René Maran was a #Black French journalist, and the first black writer to win the renowned French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt. Maran was born in Martinique of Guyanese parents. After a four-year stay in Gabon, Central Africa, where his father was serving in a colonial post, Maran returned in 1894 to France, where […]

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