Jean-Marie Denis (a.k.a. Jan Mapou)

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I have translated materials for the Board Of Education in Miami and Fort-Lauderdale, The Criminal Justice, the Catholic Church, Private Schools, Hospitals, And several other government agencies.
I am one of the founders of the Haitian Creole Movement in Haiti (1965). I am the director of a Multi-Disciplinary non-profit Organization promoting Haitian Creole and Culture in Florida for the past 50 years with chapters in Canada, Connecticut, Tampa Bay, New York, Georgia and Haiti. I am the owner of a bookstore, the only French hub in Miami, distributing Creole-French-English books. I have published 7 books in Haitian Creole. (Poetry, Plays, Short Stories...), I have directed more that a dozen plays in New York and Miami. I edited several books in creole, French and English.