Ethnologist and translator, Ananda Devi was born in Mauritius in 1957. A prolific writer, she has published collections of poems, short stories and novels, including Eve Out of Her Ruins (prix des Cinq Continents, prix RFO, Gallimard, 2006), Le sari vert (prix Louis Guilloux, Gallimard, 2010), and most recently L’ambassadeur triste (Gallimard, 2015). Awarded the “Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises” in 2014, she is now considered one of the major figures of Indian Ocean literature.
