Ananda Devi (born March 23, 1957) is a Mauritian writer.[1]
Mauritian writer
Biography
Of Telugu descent from Andhra Pradesh, she was born in Trois-Boutiques, Mauritius. At the age of 15, she won a prize in a Radio France Internationale short story competition. She went on to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology. In 1977, she published a collection of short stories, Solstices. After spending several years in Brazzaville in the Congo, she moved to Ferney-Voltaire in 1989, the same year in which her first novel Rue la poudrière was published. This was followed by more novels: Le Voile de Draupadi in 1993, L'Arbre fouet in 1997 and, in 2000, Moi, l'interdite, which received the Prix Radio France du Livre de l'Océan Indien.[1][2]
Her novel, Eve de ses décombres, won the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie in 2006, as well as several other prizes. It was adapted for the cinema by Sharvan Anenden and Harrikrisna Anenden. In 2007, Devi received the Certificat d'Honneur Maurice Cagnon du Conseil International d'Études Francophones.[1]
She has since won other literary prizes, including the Prix Louis Guilloux for Le Sari vert, the Prix Ouest France Étonnants Voyageurs for Manger l'autre, and, for the totality of her work, the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature française of the Académie française. In 2021, her novel Le rire des déesses was awarded the Prix Femina des lycéens.[3] In 2010 she was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
Devi is married to the film director Harrikrisna Anenden.[4]
Works
Solstices, short-story collection (1977)
Le poids des êtres, short-story collection (1987)
English translation "Lakshmi's Gift" by D.S. Blair in The Heinemann Book of African Women's Writing (1993)
Rue la Poudrière, novel (1988)
Le Voile de Draupadi, novel (1993)
La fin des pierres et des âges, short-story collection (1993)
L'Arbre-fouet, novel (1997)
Moi, L'Interdite, novel (2000)
Pagli, novel (2001)
English translation by Ananda Devi (Rupa Publishers, 2007)
Soupir, novel (2002)
La Vie de Joséphin le fou, novel (2003)
Le Long Désir, poetry collection (2003)
The Long Desire, English translation by Rachel Wysocki (2014)
Ève de ses décombres, novel (2006), winner of the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie, the Prix RFO du livre, and the Prix Télévision Suisse Romande
Eve Out of Her Ruins, English translation by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Deep Vellum, 2016; Les Fugitives, 2016; Speaking Tiger, 2017)
Indian Tango, novel (2007)
Indian Tango, English translation by Jean Anderson (Host Publications, 2011; Random House India, 2013)
Le sari vert, novel (2009), winner of the Prix Louis-Guilloux
Quand la nuit consent à me parler, poetry collection (2011)
When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me, English translation by Kazim Ali (HarperCollins India, 2020; Deep Vellum, 2022)
Les hommes qui me parlent, autobiographical novel (2011)
Les Jours vivants, novel (2013)
The Living Days, English translation by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Feminist Press, 2019; Les Fugitives, 2020)
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