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This year, we celebrate in memoriam the 100th birthday of two Haitian literary masters: Jacques Stephen Alexis y Émile Célestin Mégie. More than just a brilliant intellectual, Alexis was also an active participant in the social and political debates of his time; born in April 1922, he’s believed to have been killed by the regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Born in October 1922,  Mégie (also known as “Togiram”) was a journalist, writer, poet, and novelist. A defender of the Haitian Creole language since the 1940s, he wrote in both Haitian Creole and French. The panelists celebrating these two extraordinary trailblazers include writers Lyonel Trouillot y Marc Exavier, film director Arnold Antonin, and founder of The Haitian Voice, Angelucci Manigat.