Joseph Zobel Author

Joseph Zobel was born in 1915 in Rivière-Salée, Martinique. His many works include the novel La rue cases-négres (translated as Black Shack Alley) and its continuation, La fète à Paris. A noted poet and a gifted sculptor, as well as an influential radio producer in Senegal, Zobel retired to a small village in 1974. He died in 2006.