Ralph Youri Chevry, Mayor of Port-au-Prince :

The Mayor of Port-au-Prince, Ralph Youri Chevry has learned with deep emotion of the death at the age of 76, of the famous writer and former Mayor of Apricots, Jean Claude Fignolé whose he salutes the memory.

"This great art critic, journalist and teacher in addition, has built a great ideological and stylistic originality through time, until becoming without a doubt one of the greatest authors of frictional works of the end of 20th century in Haiti and in the French West Indies," aid the Mayor of the Capital, adding" [...] Jean Claude Fignolé, former Mayor of the city of Abricots and President of the Association of Mayors of Grand'Anse was a citizen committed, a great passionated of tourist sites of Haiti, of the Francophonie, of the integrated development and education in particular.

[...] On behalf of the Municipal Administration of Port-au-Prince, Mayor Ralph Youri Chevry, bowed before the body of this native of Grand'Anse and expressed his condolences to all those that this disappeared afflicts."

Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet, Minister of Education :

"Pierre Josué Agenor Cadet, Minister of National Education, has learned with dismay the sad news of the death of Jean-Claude Fignolé, teacher, co-founder of the Jean Price-Mars college and writer emeritus of Haitian literature, author of 'Les Possédés de la pleine lune' a work that will have marked a whole generation of young people.

His involvement in the life of the community and the sustainable development of his native land can serve as an example of a committed citizen, protector of the environment and heritage, so sought after for the renewal of this country that is dear to us.

Minister Cadet bows to this "Mapou" of Haitian literature and invites young people to draw on his convictions and his continuous commitment to the new Haiti, respectful of democratic values [...] and presents his sympathies to his family and to his friends affected by this painful disappearance."

Limond Toussaint, Minister of Culture :

"Limond Toussaint, the Minister of Culture, is saddened by the death of the eminent Haitian writer, Jean-Claude Fignolé, one of the most prolific writers of our time. His works, of an exceptional literary style, are appreciated both in Haiti and abroad. He was a founding member of the great contemporary literary current: Spiralism [...]

It is with great humility that I bow to the work of the immense Haitian writer, Jean-Claude Fignolé, who has gone to the afterlife. He alone contributed to the enrichment of our Literature with more than twenty works. This makes him, one of the undisputed leaders of contemporary thought in Haiti [...]

In this painful circumstance, Minister Toussaint expresses his deepest sympathies to the members of the family of the extinct poet, members of the literary spiralism movement, his close relations, the literary sector and the entire Haitian Nation."

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-21491-haiti-social-passing-of-the-poet-writer-jean-claude-fignole.html

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre