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Daniella Jeffry-Pilot

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Daniella Jeffry-Pilot (1941 - 2019) was a writer, teacher and historian from Saint Martin, who was the founder of the United Saint-Martin Movement. She was awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government for her activism.

Biography

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Jeffry-Pilot was born in 1941 in Marigot and went to school at the Lycée Gerville-Réache in Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe.[1] She graduated in 1965 from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne with a BA in English and in 1971 she graduated from the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar, with a Higher Certificate in Education and returned to Saint Martin. From 1974 she taught English and French at the Collège of Marigot.[2] She also translated the works of archaeologist Jay Haviser and writer George Lamming to French for books by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).[3]

In 1988 she founded the United Saint-Martin Movement, which campaigned for the political unification of the island. In 1990 she was appointed president of the Saint-Martin People's Consensus by Mayor Albert Fleming. She retired from the Collège of Marigot in 2000.[2] From 2001 to 2007 she was a member of the Territorial Council.[1] She died in 2019.[4]

Awards

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Selected works

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  • 1963 – A Landmark Year in St. Martin, A Retrospective Look (English, French edition), (House of Nehesi Publishers, 2003)
  • 1963 – A Landmark Year in St. Martin, (Xlibris, 2011)[5][6]
  • Saint-Martin : stabilisation sociétale dans dans la Caraïbe francaise, (L'Harmattan, 2010)[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Biographie : Daniella Jeffry-Pilot - Littérature Ile-de-saint-martin". www.bourse-des-voyages.com. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  2. ^ a b "Welcome to House of Nehesi Publishers". www.houseofnehesipublish.com. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  3. ^ "Author Daniella Jeffry Pilot Reveals How St. Martin Island has Evolved Beginning in 1963". PRWeb. Archived from the original on February 21, 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  4. ^ News, Sint Maarten (2019-10-09). "RIP DANIELLA JEFFRY". St Maarten News. Retrieved 2022-04-29. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ "St. Martin News Network - Daniella Jeffry presents library with book". smn-news.com. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  6. ^ Jeffry, Daniella (2011-12-29). 1963-A Landmark Year in St. Martin: A Retrospective Look. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4771-6272-9.
  7. ^ Saint-martin - destabilisation societale dans la caraibe fra. Paris: L'Harmattan. 2012. ISBN 978-2-296-44609-0. OCLC 1100886006.