He was a Black French journalist,and the first black writer to win the renowed French literary prize,the Prix Goncourt.
Rene was born in Martinique of Guyanese Parents.After a four-year stay in Gabon,Central Africa,where his daddy was serving in a colonial post,Rene returned in 1894 to France,where he attended the lycee.He later completed his baccalaureate at Bordeaux,which he thereafter regarded as home.Like his daddy,Rene entered the French colonial service.In 1910 he left for Bangui to serve as petty officer in charge of indigenous affairs in the Ubangi-Shari territory for French Equatorial Africa(present-day Central Africa Republic).The only black Frenchman to hold such a post,Rene serve from 1910-1925.
His first book of poems (Batouala) was born out of this experience,and was first published in French in 1921.This translation is,based upon the franker 1938 edition.He wrote seven other books including Le Livre de la Brousse (1934) and an autobiographical novel Un Homme pareli aux autres.He stated that he spent six years,off and on,writing his best work by observing the ways of the tribal troups and learning their langlanguages.
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