found: His Etincelles, 1945.
found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1926)
found: East Carolina Univ. Writers of the Caribbean WWW site, Mar. 30, 2004(René Depestre, b. in Haiti in 1926; lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime; a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house; best known for his poetry; novelist; later a resident of France)
found: Danticat, E. "René Depestre" in The Caribbean writer, vol. 9, 1995:page 87 (Depestre was born in Jacmel, Haiti on August 29, 1926)