# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oswald-durand
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:16:01.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oswald-durand"
name: "Oswald Durand"
slug: "oswald-durand"
description: "Oswald Durand was a Haitian poet and politician, said to be \"to Haiti what Shakespeare is to England, and Dante to Italy.\" He was also a Haitian writer and poet of French and Creole expression, considered as the national poet of Haiti. Besides he was also judged as a Romantic poet and the most prolific one in the nineteen centuries. These 20th-century successors such as René Depestre, and Jacques Roumain congratulated Oswald Durand for his authentic expressions and honored him as a forerunner of Haitian indigenism. He was born in the northern part of Haiti, in the city of Saint-Louis du Nord. In 1842, both his parents died in the earthquake that devastated the city of Cape Haitian. Oswald Durand, and his sister, were welcomed by their maternal grandmother who raised them. He spent most of his childhood outside the city where he was born. Because of political instabilities in Haiti, he was forced to leave school and to educate himself without having recourse to a teacher."
tagline: "Haitian politician and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/O._Durand.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1840-09-17"
deathDate: "1906-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.97523733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump