Frankétienne (Ravine-Sèche, April 12, 1936 – Delmas, 2025) was a painter, poet, and playwright, and a central figure in Haitian culture. Co-founder of Spiralism—a literary movement that proposed a spiral form of writing, dynamic and constantly evolving, blending French and Haitian Creole—he developed a dense, gestural visual language populated by faces, signs, and fragmented inscriptions. His paintings often echoed his writing, creating an intuitive and polyphonic expression. Named a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2010, he briefly served as Haiti’s Minister of Culture in 1988 and was awarded Order of Arts and Letters.