Dany Laferrière is a Quebecois journalist and writer, originally from Haiti. He has written more than a dozen autobiographical books which explore the question of identify and the boundaries which literature throws itself against. In his latest novel, Je suis un écrivain japonais, the author breaks with the norms of the roman noir and rejects the role of spokesperson for francophone culture that has been imposed upon him. He enjoys blurring the boundaries of identity and he defends the right and the freedom of all writers to define themselves as they wish.