Diederich is now in his early 80's and is still hard to keep up with! (his son JB is managing this page)
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- Location:
- Miami, FL
- Birthday:
- July 18
Bernard Diederich
Pascale Doxy
Dear M. Diederich,
I have read with a lot of enthusiasm your book 'Bon Papa'. I have to admit, that so far, I have never met someone you knows the Haitians so deeply. The righteousness of your reflections are so accurate that your book is the best gift that one can offer to anybody you want to discover the complexity ...of my follow citizens (actually, the 'aysyen natif natal' also will learn a lot in it).Read More
I have read with a lot of enthusiasm your book 'Bon Papa'. I have to admit, that so far, I have never met someone you knows the Haitians so deeply. The righteousness of your reflections are so accurate that your book is the best gift that one can offer to anybody you want to discover the complexity ...of my follow citizens (actually, the 'aysyen natif natal' also will learn a lot in it).Read More
Bernard Diederich
The Ghosts of Makara
Published 2002 by Xlibris
Growing up Down-Under in a lost world of yesteryears, is the moving memoir of a son of an Irish-German immigrant family growing up during the 1920s and the Depression-wracked '30s in a wind-blasted , yet picturesque , Pacific corner of colonial New Zealand . Makara Beach cou...ld have been Middle-Earth of the Lord of the Rings, the Academy Award-winning movie which 70 years later used Makara as one of its filming locations. In this sepia-tinted, nostalgic, first person family album, the author evokes a lost era Down Under, one without television, the Internet, or (early on) even radio, when he and his younger brothers and elder sisters acted out their own stories and dreamed their own dreams. It was truly a different world, where barefoot Hobbits grew up with a deep love of nature and respect for family-a world we can learn much from today.Read More
Published 2002 by Xlibris
Growing up Down-Under in a lost world of yesteryears, is the moving memoir of a son of an Irish-German immigrant family growing up during the 1920s and the Depression-wracked '30s in a wind-blasted , yet picturesque , Pacific corner of colonial New Zealand . Makara Beach cou...ld have been Middle-Earth of the Lord of the Rings, the Academy Award-winning movie which 70 years later used Makara as one of its filming locations. In this sepia-tinted, nostalgic, first person family album, the author evokes a lost era Down Under, one without television, the Internet, or (early on) even radio, when he and his younger brothers and elder sisters acted out their own stories and dreamed their own dreams. It was truly a different world, where barefoot Hobbits grew up with a deep love of nature and respect for family-a world we can learn much from today.Read More
Dave Burnett Bernie.. wondering if you have any up to date contacts (email?) for Greg Chamberlain / the AFP/Paris chap? cheers..burnetti
Bernard Diederich Diederich in Bimini. in front of the Complete Angler. Had drinks with Hemingway's ghost. Unfortunately the historic bar burned down the following year.
Bernard Diederich Bernard John Diederich (Grandpa) , Jean Bernard Diederich, Ginette Diederich & Bernard Diederich, New Zealand Circa December 1963.
Rouane Itani Hello, Mario deLatour from PAP, Haiti suggested I contact you regarding Arthur Payne and the Miami Sheriff's involved in the first invasion in 1958, I read THE PRIZE and you have a chapter about the invasion. We'd like to interview you about that experience and find out more about the Americans. What is the best way to follow up? thank you.
Tom Diederich Happy belated birthday, cousin!
Josiane Hudicourt Barnes
Hey Bèna!
I hope you sold lots of book at Livres en Folie!
Dave Burnett
Hey Bernie.. long tim e no see.. hope you are well.. im wondering if you have a n up to date email or phone for Greg Chamberlain (Grenada Jan 1974!! remember?)... i have old numbers in Paris..
best
db
Reginald DeMatteis
Hello Bernie...you made quite an impression on my son Jean Marc and his wife Verena on your last visit to Haiti .Over the years I have read and consulted many times your book "Papa Doc et les Tontons Macoutes". I have a picture taken during our "infamous" trip to Santiago de Cuba for their last Carnaval before Fidel......send me your email and I will scan it and send it you
if you don't have it Carole says HI !! ReginaldRead More
if you don't have it Carole says HI !! ReginaldRead More
Carl I came across "Bon Papa" at Livres en Folie in Haiti. For young Haitians like me who don't know much about this era, that book is a gold mine !!! Please keep sharing about your haitian experience, the country and my generation needs that !!!
Bernard Diederich Some of the Sunshine Boys after a great dinner at the Vazquez home in Miami.
William W. Evans III Rony Chenet sends Greetings from Haiti. He is active and in good health and comes to work at The Petionville Club every day from 11 to 2 ! See him on my page Photo Book The PVC. Best Regards, Bill Evans
Mauri
Your book on Somoza was my standard as I entered the Central America story in 1981. Tried to buy it later and it was out of print.
Thank you for all your work. I just finished Open Veins of Latin America.
