# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/felix-morisseau-leroy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:39:18.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/felix-morisseau-leroy"
name: "Félix Morisseau-Leroy"
slug: "felix-morisseau-leroy"
description: "Félix Morisseau-Leroy was a Haitian writer who used Haitian Creole to write poetry and plays, the first significant writer to do so. By 1961 he succeeded in having Creole recognized as an official language of Haiti, after expanding its teaching in schools and use in creative literature. Morisseau also published works on French, Haitian Creole and Haitian French literature. He worked internationally, encouraging the development of national literature in post-colonial Ghana and Senegal. In 1981 he settled in Miami, Florida, where he was influential in uniting the Haitian community around Creole and encouraged its study in academia."
tagline: "Haitian writer (1912–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Felix_Moriso_Lewa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-03-13"
deathDate: "1998-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.412924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فيليكس موريسايو ليروى"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump