Rafael Pallais
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Raphael Pallais is a Franco
-Nicaragua
n poet, polemicist and fiction writer.
from a Nicaraguan father (of French origin) and a French mother. His father, Henri Pallais Sacasa, was a journalist who died in a helicopter crash in 1965. His mother, Marie-Cecile Cauvet is the step-daughter of French "affichiste" Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
http://www.cassandre.fr/cassandre.fr/Bienvenue.html/. At 5 Pallais went to live in France and grew up in Paris. He returned to Nicaragua when he was 12.
Pallais started publishing poems in local literary magazines when he was 17 years old, then returned to France.. In 1978, Editions Champ Libre published Pallais' Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (loosely translated as "An incitement to refute the Third World
"). A year later, a Mexican independent publishing house, Editorial El Milenio, translated into Spanish and published the book under the name Incitacion a la Refutacion del Tercer Mundo. A few months later, the same publisher produced Pallais' pamphlet about the revolution in Nicaragua: Précisions sur le Nicaragua. Both the book and the pamphlet were a radical critique of the Sandinista movement and theoretical foundation. The book was banned in Nicaragua during this party's interregnum. Pallais moved to the US and went on to write and publish a book on Champagne (1983).
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
-Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
n poet, polemicist and fiction writer.
Biography
Raphael Pallais was born in León, NicaraguaLeón, Nicaragua
León is a department in northwestern Nicaragua . It is also the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. It was founded by the Spaniards as Santiago de los Caballeros de León and rivals Granada, Nicaragua, in the number of historic Spanish colonial homes and churches...
from a Nicaraguan father (of French origin) and a French mother. His father, Henri Pallais Sacasa, was a journalist who died in a helicopter crash in 1965. His mother, Marie-Cecile Cauvet is the step-daughter of French "affichiste" Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre was a Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.-Early Life and Career:...
http://www.cassandre.fr/cassandre.fr/Bienvenue.html/. At 5 Pallais went to live in France and grew up in Paris. He returned to Nicaragua when he was 12.
Pallais started publishing poems in local literary magazines when he was 17 years old, then returned to France.. In 1978, Editions Champ Libre published Pallais' Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (loosely translated as "An incitement to refute the Third World
Third World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
"). A year later, a Mexican independent publishing house, Editorial El Milenio, translated into Spanish and published the book under the name Incitacion a la Refutacion del Tercer Mundo. A few months later, the same publisher produced Pallais' pamphlet about the revolution in Nicaragua: Précisions sur le Nicaragua. Both the book and the pamphlet were a radical critique of the Sandinista movement and theoretical foundation. The book was banned in Nicaragua during this party's interregnum. Pallais moved to the US and went on to write and publish a book on Champagne (1983).
Published works
- Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (1978)
- "Précisions sur le Nicaragua" (pamphlet, Editorial El Milenio)
- Champagne! (1983)