Winner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice.
She was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2010..
She has published eleven novels as well as short stories and poetry, and was featured at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York in 2015. 1957, Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius) is a novelist and scholar.
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Le Cl zio, who declares Devi a truly great writer.
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Awarded the prestigious Prix des cinq continents upon publication as the best book written in French outside of France, Eve Out of her Ruins is a harrowing account of the violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.
Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see, and a poignant exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society. -- Le Figaro Included in World Literature Today \'s 75 Notable Translations of 2016 With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country\'s endless cycle of fear and violence: Eve, whose body is her only weapon and source of power
Savita, Eve\'s best friend, the only one who loves Eve without self-interest, who has plans to leave but will not go alone
Saadiq, gifted would-be poet, inspired by Rimbaud, in love with Eve
Cl lio, belligerent rebel, waiting without hope for his brother to send for him from France.
Winner of the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice
