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About Marie-Reine de Jaham
- Marie-Reine de Jaham (born February 7, 1940) is a Martiniquais-born writer living in France.Descended from French planters, she is the granddaughter of Victor Depaz and the first cousin twice removed of Joséphine de Beauharnais.
- At the age of 17, she married and moved with her husband to the United States.
- There, she began a career in advertising in New York City; she later moved to Paris, where she founded her own agency.
- In 1990, she established a Creole cultural association, Le Patrimoine Créole.
- She is considered one of the best-informed experts on Creole culture.
- de Jaham moved to Nice in 2000.
- There, she established the Cercle Méditerranée Caraïbe with the aim of establishing links between the Mediterranean region and the Caribbean.In 1989, she published her first novel La Grande Béké, which became a bestseller and was adapted for television in 1998.
- In 1991, she published a second novel Le Maître-savane which continued the story begun in her first novel.In 1996, de Jaham was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres..
- She was promoted officer in january 2013
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