LEGS ÉDITION is a publishing house founded in October 2012 by Wébert Charles, Mirline Pierre and Dieulermesson Petit Frère in order to support and promote authors, and re-energise the Haitian book market. Specializing in the reissue of classic literary texts, the publishing house also publishes works by contemporary authors, children’s books and textbooks, including the journal Legs et Littérature. It is made up of a group of writers, publishers, researchers, professors, chroniclers and literary critics.
Among other things, LEGS ÉDITION aims to promote literature in all its forms across all media; to work to safeguard the Haitian literary and artistic heritage; to advocate Haitian values; to establish bridges of communication between foreign literatures and cultures.
LEGS ÉDITION se veut un héritage, un patrimoine qu’on entend laisser (léguer) aux générations futures. C’est ce lien que nous essaierons de maintenir avec l’autre, celui/celle/ et ceux/celles qui vient/viennent. Nous sommes donc une passerelle...
Read here the interview with Dieulermesson Petit Frère, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (February 20, 2018).