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Literature Of Réunion
Literature of Réunion is the literature of persons linked to the island of Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. It is written in French language, French and in Réunionnais creole as well as other languages. History The origins of Réunionnais literature are in Réunionnais short stories and poetry, which flourished beginning in the mid-18th century. Évariste de Parny and Antoine Bertin were writers born in the island in the 18th century, but who spent most of their lives away from their birthplace. For them Réunion was a subject that represented beauty and youthful memories. This theme of exoticism was one that predominated in literature written by French-language writers from Réunion writing for a readership in France. Réunion was recounted as a lost paradise inhabited by happy natives, as in the 1924 novel ''Ulysse, Cafre ou L'Histoire dorée d'un Noir'' by Prix Goncourt winning Réunionnais authors Marius-Ary Leblond. In the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Verse
Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ambiguous. History Though individual examples of English free verse poetry surfaced before the 20th-century (parts of John Milton's '' Samson Agonistes'' or the majority of Walt Whitman's poetry, for example), free verse is generally considered an early 20th century innovation of the late 19th-century French ''vers libre''. T. E. Hulme and F. S. Flint first introduced the form to the London-based Poets' Club in 1909. This later became the heart of the Imagist movement through Flint's advocacy of the genre. Imagism, in the wake of French Symbolism (i.e. vers libre of French Symbolist poets) was the wellspring out of which the main current of Modernism in English flowed. T. S. Eliot later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius-Ary Leblond
Marius-Ary Leblond is the pen name of two historians, writers, art critics and journalists, George Athénas and Aimé Merlo, cousins, from Réunion. Their work was rewarded by the Prix Goncourt in 1909 for the novel ''En France'', which narrates the journey of two young Creoles, who came to study at the Sorbonne. They occupied public positions, (George) as secretary to the Joseph Gallieni Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 – 27 May 1916) was a French military officer, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies where he wrote several books on colonial affairs. He was rec ... from 1914 to 1916, and (Aimé) as conservator of France overseas museums. They helped with the creation of the Musée Léon Dierx, in Saint-Denis de La Reunion. Works * ''En France'', novel, 1909. * ''La France devant l'Europe'', essay, 1913, Eugène Fasquelle Éditeur. * ''Le Zézère'', novel Fasquelle, 1903. * ''Le Secret des Robes'', novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gamaleya
Boris Gamaleya (18 December 1930 Saint-Louis, Réunion, St. Louis – 30 June 2019) was a Réunion poet, literary critic, linguist, folklorist, and social activist. He primarily wrote in French. Biography His father was Ukrainians, Ukrainian a descendant of Cossack Hetmanate, Cossack Hetman Petro Doroshenko, who fled Russia after the October Revolution and died when Boris was still young. His mother was a Demographics of Réunion, Réunion-born ''créole'' of distantly Portuguese decent. He grew up in mountain village of Makes, Réunion, Makes in the home of his grandparents. He was first published in local newspapers in Réunion. In 1950, he began higher education in France but left the Ecole Normale d'Instituteurs in Avignon for the university town of Aix-en-Provence in 1951 where he joined the French Communist Party. Upon his return to the island in 1955 with his wife Clélie, a literature teacher, he taught French, published poems and essays in the press and began collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joëlle Écormier
Joëlle Écormier (born March 31, 1967, in Le Tampon, Réunion), is a French writer. After writing for herself during her childhood, she was a homemaker when she participated in a literary experiment launched by the book club France Loisirs in 1998: the collaborative writing of a novel whose first pages were endorsed by Yann Queffélec, and whose later pages were to be chosen from international submissions. The selection of her submission for the second chapter of this collaborative work of fiction, which appeared in 1999 under the title ''30 jours à tuer'' ("Thirty Days to Kill") led the young woman to launch herself into a career as a writer. Écormier's first independent novel, ''Le Grand Tamarinier'' ("The Big Tamarind Tree"), was published by the Réunion publishing house Azalées Éditions in 2000. ''Le Grand Tamarinier'' created a child and began a shift towards children's literature, which she pursued with her second work, a tale illustrated by her daughter's drawings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Cheynet
Anne-Marie Thérèse Fontaine (23 August 1938 – 23 May 2025), known by her pen name Anne Cheynet, was a French author in Réunion. Her 1977 work ' is considered a significant contribution to Réunionnais literature, as the first novel to be formally labeled as "Réunionnais." Biography Anne-Marie Thérèse Fontaine was born in Saint-Denis, Réunion, in 1938, and spent her childhood in the city's Saint-François neighborhood. She traveled to Aix-en-Provence to study in 1956, remaining abroad until 1963. Back on the island, she worked as a secondary school teacher before getting involved in politics. She later returned to the classroom as a preschool teacher. She published her first book, the poetry collection ''Matanans et Langoutis'', in 1972, followed by her best-known work, the novel ''Les Muselés'', which is considered the first work billed as a "Réunionnais novel." The novel, which has an activist slant, focuses on the lives of the poor in Réunion. Cheynet, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaëlle Bélem
Gaëlle Bélem (born 1984) is a French writer of Réunionese extraction known for the prize-winning coming-of-age novel ''Un monstre est là , derrière la porte'' (2020), and the historical novel ''Le fruit le plus rare: ou la vie d'Edmond Albius'' (2023). Biography Gaëlle Bélem was born in Saint-Benoît, Réunion, grew up in a modest family and has been writing since the age of twelve. She left Réunion at the age of 17, and studied in Toulouse, France, at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat from 2002 to 2005, and subsequently at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2005 and finally at École pratique des hautes études. In 2009 she started as a teacher of history and geography in Île-de-France. Back in Réunion, she continued to work as a teacher of Latin, history and geography, first in middle school and later in high school. She also taught in a detention center and functions as an associate judge in a juvenile court. In 2020 she published her first novel ''Un monstre est là , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (28 January 1864 – 29 August 1938) was a French writer and historian of medieval France. Biography Bédier was born in Paris, France, to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland (1889–1891) and the Collège de France, Paris (c. 1893). Modern theories of the '' fabliaux'' and the '' chansons de geste'' are based on two of Bédier's studies. Bédier revived interest in several important old French texts, including '' Tristan et Iseut'' (1900), '' La chanson de Roland'' (1921), and '' Les fabliaux'' (1893). He was a member of the Académie française from 1920 until his death. His ''Le roman de Tristan et Iseut'' was translated into Cornish by A. S. D. Smith, into English by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld, and into German by Rudolf G. Binding. In 2013, a new English translation by Edward J. Gallagher was published by Hac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Henri Azéma
Jean-Henri Azéma, called Jean Azéma (28 December 1913 – 13 October 2000) was a French poet of Réunionnais origin. Born in Saint-Denis, he died in Buenos Aires, where he had fled after collaborating with the Nazis during World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo .... His son was the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma. ReferencesBrief biographical sketchon answers.com 1913 births 2000 deaths People from Saint-Denis, Réunion Poets from Réunion French expatriates in Argentina French exiles French Waffen-SS personnel 20th-century French poets French male poets 20th-century French male writers Nazis who fled to Argentina {{Réunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Azéma
Georges Azéma (died May 9, 1864) was a French historian from Réunion. Son of the writer Étienne Azéma François Paul Étienne Azéma (15 January 1778 – 28 August 1851 in Saint-Denis, Réunion, on the island of Réunion) was a French poet, playwright, and writer of fables. He was a magistrate, delegated to the island by the Ministre de la Marine, ... and brother to the doctor Mazaé Azéma, his son Henri was also a doctor; his grandfather Jean-Baptiste Azéma had briefly served as governor of Réunion; other relatives include the poet Jean-Henri Azéma and the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma. Bibliography *''Le dictionnaire biographique de La Réunion'', Sabine Deglise, Brigitte Hock-Koon, Raymonde Kissel, Michel Verguin et Mario Serviable, 1998. 1864 deaths 19th-century French historians Writers from Réunion Year of birth unknown People from Réunion of French descent French male writers {{Réunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Azéma
François Paul Étienne Azéma (15 January 1778 – 28 August 1851 in Saint-Denis, Réunion, on the island of Réunion) was a French poet, playwright, and writer of fables. He was a magistrate, delegated to the island by the Ministre de la Marine, and as a writer was well known for his play ''Médée''. He was a descendant of Jean-Baptiste Azéma, a former governor of the island; he was the father of Georges Azéma, a historian, and Mazaé Azéma, a doctor. His grandson was the doctor Henri Azéma; other descendants include the poet Jean-Henri Azéma and the historian Jean-Pierre Azéma. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1850. References People from Réunion of French descent Writers from Réunion Poets from Réunion 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights People from Saint-Denis, Réunion 1778 births 1851 deaths 19th-century French poets French fabulists Dramatists and playwrights from Réunion {{Réunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Aubry
Gilbert Guillaume Marie-Jean Aubry (born 10 May 1942 in Saint-Louis, Réunion) was a Réunionnais bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion, as well as a poet and a singer. Aubry served as the bishop of the diocese, which is based in the city of Saint-Denis, Réunion, from his episcopal consecration on 2 May 1976 until his retirement on 19 July 2023. A native of Réunion, Aubry entered the seminary of La Croix-Valmer, before continuing his training at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy and another in theology. He was ordained as a Catholic priest on 23 August 1970. before being appointed the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion, just five years later, on 20 November 1975, by Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |