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Rafael Pallais
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Raphael Pallais is a Franco-Nicaraguan poet, polemicist and fiction writer. Biography Raphael Pallais is a Franco-Nicaraguan writer, poet and essayist born in León, Nicaragua from a Nicaraguan father (of French origin) and a French mother. His father, Henri Pallais Sacasa, was a WWII veteran journalist who died in a helicopter crash in 1965. His mother, Marie-Cecile Cauvet is the step-daughter of French "affichiste" Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. At 5 Pallais went to live in France and grew up in Paris. He returned to Nicaragua when he was 12. Pallais started publishing poems in local literary magazines when he was 17 years old, then returned to France. He attended the Universidad Catolica (UCA) as well as the Universite de Caen (Caen, France), but never graduated from either. In 1978, Editions Champ Libre published Pallais' Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (loosely translated as "An incitement to refute the Third World"), an essay on the non-existence of the so-called Third World. A year later, a Mexican publishing house, Editorial El Milenio, translated into Spanish and published the book under the title Incitación a la Refutación del Tercer Mundo. A few months later, the same publisher produced Pallais' pamphlet about the so-called Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua: Précisions sur le Nicaragua. Both the book and the pamphlet presented a radical critique of the Sandinista movement and its Stalinist foundation. The book was banned in Nicaragua during this party's interregnum. In 1983 Shadow Books published a co-authored book on Champagne (1983). Self-published books include: El Arte del Asesinato en Nicaragua, El Caudillado de Nicaragua y la República Incipiente, Obra Poética inCompleta, The Arrow, The Good Land and other Poems and a translation of several key poems of Carlos Martinez Rivas in Carlos Marinez Rivas: Required Poems( www.lulu.com). Pallais moved with his family to New York, where he continues to write. Published works *Incitation a la Refutation du Tiers-Monde (Editions Champ Libre, Paris - 1978) *"Incitacion a la Refutacion del Tercer Mundo" (Editorial El Milenio, Mexico, DF - 1980) *"Précisions sur le Nicaragua" (pamphlet, Editorial El Milenio, Mexico, DF - 1980) *Champagne! (Shadow Books, New York - 1983) *"El Arte del Asesinato en Nicaragua" (ediciones delFín, NY - www.lulu.com *"El Caudillado de Nicaragua y la República Incipiente" (ediciones delFín, NY - www.lulu.com *"Radiographie du Bonheur Américain" (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lulu.com *"Carlos Martinez Rivas: Required Poems" - Translations (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lulu.com *"La Flecha - Poems" (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lulu.com *"La Sal en el Pelo" (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lulu.com *"Obra Poética inCompleta" (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lulu.com *"Absolute Money and its Society" (ediciones delFín, NY) - www.lullu.com 
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