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Benoit SANON’S biography

Benoit SANON was born in the Valley of Jacmel Haiti on July 11, 1977. He is the sixth child of a large Catholic family of ten children. His mother was a big food trader and his father was a big farmer.

He received his first education at home, that is to say that he did not attend neither kindergarten nor preschool.

After his primary school in 1990, he went to St. Louis College for secondary studies.

A year later, the country was going through chaotic situations politically speaking, and his father Jean Isonne SANON who was already under political persecution under the dictatorial regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier, had to leave the country to take refuge in Dominican Republic.

During his father’s absence, he was very discouraged, and was no longer interested in school, so he spent 4 years without going to school.

In 1994, he met a good friend named Jean Jonas Julien who invited him to visit a protestant church. When he arrived at this church, according to his testimony, it was for the first time he listened to a message that touched his heart, and he decided to give his heart to Jesus Christ.

That same year, he made friends with the preacher named John Alix Princius, who drew him to Christ. That preacher saw his potential and encouraged him to go back to school seriously. He took John’s advice and went to Sacre-Coeur’s College, where he received good teaching, especially Latin, which served as the basis for all the Romance languages.

As a student, he had a great passion for all subjects, especially French literature, because, he said, he could be like René Descartes, philosopher and scientist. Thus, he threw himself into literature, he wrote a lot of poems and thoughts while respecting the classical 17th century.

In 2001, he completed his classical studies with great success. The pastor of the church, Rony LAMBERT, wanted to give him a scholarship to study theology in Jamaica, but he refused saying that he did not feel the call of God to be a pastor except a sheep.

Passionate about numbers, he attended I.S.T.H to study civil engineering. In 2002, he decided to visit the Dominican Republic just for fun, because the Dominicans are his neighbors he said.

During his time in the Dominican Republic, he loved Dominican spirit. A jovial, joyful, and happy people. Such a country is a good place to live he related.

Speaking with one of his old friends, (Emmanuel Mahautiere) he was advised to study languages instead of continuing in civil engineering. Thus, at the end of the year 2002, he enrolled at the Universidad Nacional Evangelica in the Sciences of Education, English mention.

He officially began his studies in November 2002. In 2003, he met a man with a big heart called Judes BAPTISTE, he was a pastor, he served as a bridge for him to give Creole and French classes at IMES (Instituto Militar de Educacion Superior) in San Isidro. In the same year, he met a certain Kerline BRIZARD, a young tall and beautiful woman from the center of Haiti (HINCHE). They fell in love, and had a child on November 20, 2005, named D'EINSTEIN SPINOZA de BENOIT SANON BRIZARD.

In 2004, he studied Portuguese at the IMES institute.

On April 12, 2006, he married Mathilde SANON POLISSAINT, a very beautiful lady with whom they had been engaged since January 2000. After the marriage, he had to leave the university to take responsibility for the family because life was not rosy at that time. He retook the university studies in January, 2007.

Because of his A’s at the University, in 2007, he was chosen to be monitor giving English, French, and Haitian creole classes at the University.

In 2008, he compiled the poems and thoughts he wrote when he was in high school and published his first anthology entitled Le Cri de Mon Ame which means ''The Cry of My Soul.

At the end of the same year, he graduated with honors (MAGNA CUM LAUDE) in Science of Education with English mention from UNEV university. After receiving the bachelor's degree, he became a formal professor at UNEV University from 2008 to 2011.

In his passions for the fine arts, in 2011 he attended Guillo PEREZ’s painting school, a very famous Dominican painter of the 21st century.

In 2013, he published his controversial anthropological book entitled "Les Noirs a La Lumiere de la Bible". A book tracing the history of black people in the Old and New Testaments, emphasizing the chamitic (blackness) genealogical lineage of Jesus Christ and his black ancestors, the product of a message heard by a great man of god in 2004 named Preval MERITIL from the book of Song of Songs 1:5,6 which states: “Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun”.

In 2016, he published a Spanish version of his book. In the same year, he attended Universidad Catolica Santo Domingo (UCSD) for an MD in management and University Teaching.

In these days, he is majoring in English Teaching as Foreign Language (ETFL) in Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) and is waiting another anthology titled: Meditation of The Time (a collection of philosophical and religious poems and thoughts

He has a lot of experience teaching languages from 2003 until now in lots of educational centers in the country (University, institute public school etc…).

On May 12th, 2021, he founded his own languages and technical school called “ Languages Institute Benoit SANON, S.R.L (LIBESA). He is considered as polyvalent. He is polyglot (creole, french, spanish, english, portuguese and basic italian), musician (guitar, piano, accordion and trumpet), painter, teacher, and tailor all at the same time. He is happily married and has for children with his wife (Stael La Fayette de Mathilde Sanon Polissaint, Shael Dorothie de Mathilde Sanon Polissaint, Nietzschkailine de Mathilde Sanon Polissaint and Nick Friedrich McMB Sanon Polissaint ).