Guy tirolien biography

Biography.
Guy Tirolien was a Guadeloupean poet.
Guy Tirolien is an emblematic figure of West Indian literature and poetry.

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Career, biography and origin of guy tirolien

Guy Tirolien was born on May 13, 1917 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, into a modest family. He was the son of Léon Tirolien, an office worker, and Marie-Ange Tirolien, a talented seamstress. Guy was the third child of five, with two older sisters and two younger brothers. Tirolien’s passion for poetry and literature was sparked at a young age by his father, who was himself an amateur poet. Encouraged by his parents, Guy Tirolien devoted a lot of time to reading and writing, thus developing his talents and nourishing his imagination. After completing his secondary education in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guy moved to France to pursue his higher education. He enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied philosophy and literature. During this period, he was influenced by modernist literary and artistic movements, such as surrealism and the negritude movement.

In 1941, Guy Tirolien published his first collection of poems entitled “Balles d’Or”. This book received critical acclaim and gained him instant recognition in th

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World War II in Guianese and Caribbean Poetry: Martin Carter, Leon Damas, Kamau Brathwaite

1A cavalcade of events celebrating the centenary of the First World War and the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in 2014 was followed, in 2016, with the commemoration of the battles of Verdun and the Somme. While much attention has justifiably been focused on European literature paying tribute to the many soldiers lost in battle, African and Caribbean voices have, unfortunately, largely been ignored. Not a single African country was invited to participate in the official 2014 programme of commemorative events in Europe. This is quite disturbing, and arguably an insult to the memory of the brave African and West Indian soldiers who fought alongside their European counterparts to defend the freedoms we enjoy today.

2While several West Indian poets have dedicated some of their poetry to coloured troops, in order to fill in a void created by the lack of a monument or other outlet for expressing collective grief for the deceased, anthologies on the first and the second World War

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Malika Tirolien

Musical artist

Malika Tirolien (born 26 June 1983) is a Guadeloupean-Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist. She sang on the Grammy Award winning album Family Dinner – Volume 1 by Snarky Puppy. She is based in Montreal.

Biography

Malika Tirolien was born in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, and grew up in an artistic environment. Her grandmother played the piano, her grandfather was the poet Guy Tirolien and her father, a history teacher, was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist.^[2]^[3]^[4] Tirolien showed interest for music and singing at a very young age; noticing this, her parents signed her up for piano lessons.^[2] She recorded her first studio song when she was 8, accompanying her father's band.^[5] As a teenager she was already very involved with singing^[6] and cites Michael Jackson as one of her biggest influences at the time.^[2]

In 2001, aged 18, Tirolien moved to Canada to study music at the Université de Montréal. In 2005, after graduating with a B.A. in jazz interpretation, Ti