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Daniel Boukman, is a pen name of Daniel Blérald, a French writer, poet, playwright and teacher born in Fort-de-France on 15 April 1936.

Biography
After studying classical literature at the Sorbonne from 1964 onwards - he was then an activist in the Martinique Student Association - Daniel Boukman left France for Morocco in October 1961 because he refused to take part in a colonial war. He then taught French in Algeria from 1962 to 1981, during which time he wrote his first plays.

His play Les Negriers was adapted for the cinema by Med Hondo in 1979 under the title West Indies.

He has also published collections of poetry, mostly in Creole, including an emponymous tribute to Frantz Fanon.

Poetry

 * Chants pour hâter la mort, du temps des Orphée ou Madinina île esclave. (Songs to hasten death, from the time of Orpheus or Madinina, slave island) Honfleur : P. J. Oswald, 1967
 * Anba fèy. (Under the leaves) Éditions Mango.
 * (Titbits of discourse).
 * (To all the languages of the world that are stifled).
 * Zizinng pawòl, with a preface by Édouard Glissant, cover illustrations by Alain Salevor, Éditions Mabouya
 * * Maskoko, with accompanying text by Monchoachi, photography by Robert Charlotte, Éditions Mabouya, 2003

Plays

 * Les Négriers, P.J. Oswald, 1971; L’Harmattan, 1978x
 * Ventres pleins, ventres creux, P. J. Oswald, 1971 ; L’Harmattan, 1980, 1992, 1998
 * Et jusqu'à la dernière pulsation de nos veines, L’Harmattan, 1976, 1993, 1998
 * Délivrans ! une farce sérieuse, L’Harmattan, 1995
 * La véridique histoire de Hourya, New Legend Éditions, 2001
 * Agoulouland ; followed by Les dix doigts des deux mains (Ten fingers on both hands) l'Harmattan, DL 2005

Other

 * Frantz Fanon. Traces d'une vie exemplaire, L'Harmattan, 2016

Filmography

 * L'Aube des damnés (documentary interview) 1965
 * West Indes (author, musical drama) 1979
 * Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask (documentary interview, biography) 1995

Distinctions

 * 1992 : Awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe for his life's work.