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Mauritian Literature
The island of Mauritius is home to many languages, and Mauritian literature exists in French, English, Creole and Indian languages. Major themes in Mauritian literature include exoticism, multiracialism and miscegenation, racial and social conflicts, '' indianocéanisme'', and—more recently—post-modernism and post-structuralism currents, such as ''coolitude''. After independence in 1968 writers like Dev Virahsawmy reactivated creole language, then considered as a "patois," and wrote literature, especially drama. The new generation of writers has expressed persistent concern with structure and more global themes. While '' Kreol Morisyen'' is the most spoken language on in Mauritius, most of the literature is written in French, although many authors write in English, Bhojpuri, and Morisyen. Mauritius's renowned playwright Dev Virahsawmy writes exclusively in Morisyen. Important authors include Malcolm de Chazal, Ananda Devi, Raymond Chasle, and Edouard Maunick. Lindsey Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Ocean Literature
The Indian Ocean is home to many literary texts, from Greco-Roman times to ''One Thousand and One Nights'', the matrix of many narratives, which portrays Sinbad the Merchant through a fantastic and popular twist of the mind, and which is based on real details of navigation in this first ocean of globalisation. Combining Indian and Chinese literatures, among the oldest on the planet, this can be characterized as the most fictionalized ocean, having been the backbone of many tales, novels and poetic work. This was further enhanced when Bartholomew Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, paving the way for Vasco da Gama, who reached Malindi, before being guided to Calicut, the desired port of spices, by a mualim or regional pilot. The Portuguese poet Camoens then wrote his famous ''Luciads''. Mark Twain sojourned there. So did Bernardin de Saint Pierre, who invented the naturalist novel with '' Paul et Virginie'', an idyllic and tragic novel under the tropics, in Maurit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Of Mauritius
Mauritius is a multi-ethnic and multi-language society; it is also a plural society with its population mainly composed of four ethnic groups and four major religious groups; it is often depicted as a "rainbow nation". The island of Mauritius did not have any indigenous population; historically, it was characterized by successive waves of European colonization and multiple immigrations. Under the French rule between 1715 and 1810, slaves were imported on the island from mainland Africa and Madagascar; slavery were only abolished in 1835 under the British rule. Indian migrants from Pondicherry first came in Mauritius under the French rule in 1736; The 18th century also saw one the earliest influx of Chinese migrants in Mauritius, who mostly came from Fujian. Under the British rule, more Indian migrants came to Mauritius following the slave emancipation of 1835. Since the 1800s Chinese migrants (mainly Cantonese, Fujianese, and Hakka) from Southern China (mainly from Fujian and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Soobramanien
Natasha Soobramanien is a Mauritian novelist who received the Goldsmiths Prize in 2022 for her novel '' Diego Garcia''. References {{Authority control Goldsmiths Prize winners Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Mauritian writers Mauritian novelists 21st-century women writers Mauritian women novelists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinod Busjeet
Vinod ( hi, विनोद , mr, विनोद , gu, વિનોદ) is a male given name used in India and Nepal, meaning "delight", "enjoyment", or "pleasure". People * Vinod Agarwal, Indian-American businessman and scientist *Vinod Aggarwal, American economist and political scientist * Vinod Bala Arun, Indian academic *Vinod Kumar Bansal, Indian businessman *Vinod Kumar Baranwal, Indian judge *Vinod Bharathan, film director from Copenhagen *A. Vinod Bharathi, Indian cinematographer *Vinod Bhatia, Indian Air Force officer *Vinod Bhatt, Gujarati-language author *Vinod Bhayana, Indian politician *Vinod Kumar Binny, Indian politician * Vinod Kumar Boianapalli, Indian politician *Vinod Chaubey, Indian Police Service officer * Vinod Chohan, Tanzanian engineer at CERN *Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium chip *Vinod Dua, Indian television presenter and journalist *Vinod Kumar Duggal, Indian civil servant * Vinod Goenka, Indian businessman * Vinod Gupta, former CEO of infoGROUP *V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenaz Patel
Shenaz Patel (born July 29, 1966) is a Mauritian writer. Early life and education She was born in the town of Rose Hill, Mauritius and writes in both French and Mauritian Creole. She did her secondary studies at Lycée La Bourdonnais. Subsequently, she obtained her degree in Modern Literature from the Université de la Réunion in 1986. Career Patel was one of a group of Mauritian writers who founded the literary journal ''Tracés''. She has translated two Tintin stories into Creole: ''Le Secret de la Licorne'' and ''Trésor de Rackham le Rouge''. Her first play ''La phobie du caméléon'' was awarded the Prix Beaumarchais. In 2014, Vents d'ailleurs published her novella ''Paradis Blues'', which is written in French with Creole interspersed through the narration. In 2016, she was a participant in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Leblanc
Marie Leblanc (1867–August 14, 1915) is a Mauritian writer, best known for her work as an editor of literary journals and other periodicals, as a novelist, and as a translator. Early life Marie Leblanc was born in 1867, during a period when Mauritius was a British colony. Much of her life is a mystery to historians, though they were able to determine that she never married. It is not clear whether she belonged to the white Franco-Mauritian elite or to the mixed Gens de couleur or Mauritian Creoles community, in part because there are no surviving photographs of her. She had a sister, Julia, who was disabled and died in 1918, and possibly a brother, Eugène Gabriel, who died in 1879 at age 32. Career Writer With the publication of her book ''La Vie et le Rêve'' en 1890, Leblanc became the first woman to publish a short story collection on the island of Mauritius. Her short stories and novellas feature women in a European setting, presumably in France or England. They tend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Thérèse Humbert
Marie-Thérèse Humbert (born July 17, 1940) is a Mauritian writer. She is a recipient of the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle. Biography She was born in Quatre Bornes and was educated at Cambridge University and the Sorbonne. She moved to France in 1968. She ran as a socialist candidate in the Indre department of France and also ran as a candidate for municipal government in Saint-Julien-de-Vouvantes. Selected works Novels * ''À l'autre bout de moi'' (1979), received the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle * ''Le Volkameria'' (1984) * ''Une robe d'écume et de vent'' (1989) * ''Un fils d'orage'' (1992), received the Prix Terre de France * ''La montagne des signaux'' (1994) * ''Le chant du seringat la nuit'' (1997) * ''Amy'' (1998) * ''Comme un voile d'ombres'' (2000) Short Stories * "En guise de préface" in ''Maurice, le tour de l'île en quatre-vingts lieux'' (1994) * "Parole de femme" in ''Au tour des femmes'' (1995) * "De la lumière, de l'amour et du silence", "Le tout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aqiil Gopee
Aqiil Gopee (born 22 June 1997) is a Mauritian writer and poet. His first book, La Pièce, was published in April 2012 by Edilivre Paris, after reception of a jury mention in the Prix du Livre d'Or 2011 competition organised by the Municipality of Quatre-Bornes and presided over by Ananda Devi. Two other books, Fantômes (prefaced by Ananda Devi) and Orgasmes (a collection of poems) came out in 2013, and in 2014, he was proclaimed laureate of the Prix du jeune écrivain de langue française in France for his short-story 'Loup et Rouge', a re-writing of the tale of the Little Red Riding Hood, and subsequently invited to the Salon du Livre de Paris to attend the 'Écrire à 20 ans' debate. Other awards include The S.I.C.O.M Youth Excellence Award For The Promotion of Literature (2014) and The Prix Jean-Fanchette des Jeunes (2015). His texts are studied at the University of Mauritius. Published works * La Pièce, ''novel'', Edilivre, 2012 * Les Hurleuses, ''short-story'', Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobel Prize For Literature
) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , reward = 10 million SEK (2022) , website = , year2 = 2022 , holder_label = Currently held by , previous = 2021 , main = 2022 , next = 2023 The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning ''for'' literature) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original Swedish: ''den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk rigtning''). Though individual works are sometimes cited as being particularly noteworthy, the award is based on an author's body of work as a who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
