{"id":419,"date":"2017-05-10T11:25:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memorial.nantes.fr\/?p=419"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:34:32","slug":"national-day-of-remembrance-of-the-slave-trade-slavery-and-the-abolition-of-both-in-france-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memorial.nantes.fr\/en\/2017\/05\/10\/national-day-of-remembrance-of-the-slave-trade-slavery-and-the-abolition-of-both-in-france-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"National day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and the abolition of both in France 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gerty Dambury is the Guest of Honor of the City of Nantes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gerty Dambury is a playwright, short story author, poet and novelist, actress and director. She was born in Pointe-\u00e0-Pitre in 1957 and studied at Paris 8 University in Vincennes, where she majored in French literature, English and Arabic. Upon returning to Guadeloupe in 1981, she studied theater professions in Trinidad, Guadeloupe and Martinique. She began writing for the stage that same year producing plays in French and Creole, as well as bilingual plays, while also teaching English. In 1992, she composed her first play \u201cIndian Letters\u201d.<\/p>\n

She has lived in Montreuil (Seine Saint-Denis) since 2003. There, she created her company La Fabrique Insomniaque (L.Fi) in 2007, with which she produces her own plays as well as texts by other authors, including Alain Mabanckou and Koffi Kwahul\u00e9. In 2011, Gerty Dambury received a special mention at the Carbet Prize ceremony for her work. Among her most recent notable publications are Les Atlantiques amers<\/em> (The Bitter Atlantic) and Le r\u00eave de William Alexander Brown<\/em>(William Alexander Brown\u2019s Dream).<\/p>\n

\u201cWho fights can lose, he who doesn\u2019t fight has already lost\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Bertolt Brecht
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\nThe full speech of Gerty Dambury, Guest of Honor of the City of Nantes, may be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

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This event is part of the \u00ab\u00a0City of Nantes\u2019 Season of Human Rights\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n