), worked together on the writing of several novels about rural Haiti, highlighting the themes of peasant life and Haitian folklore.

In 1927, together with Jacques Roumain, Carl Brouard, Émile Roumer and Normil Sylvain (1900–1929), he helped create La Revue Indigène, a literary journal in which they published their poems.

They idea was to honor the indigenous Haitian literary and artistic material, and return the culture to its pre-occupational state.

In 1948, when the PSP was declared illegal by President Dumarsais Estimé, he moved to the United States, where he worked as a translator for the Pan-American Union.

His last novel, Tous les Hommes sont Fous was published in 1972 and translated into English by his wife, Eva.