Célestine Hitiura Vaite, originally from Tahiti, currently lives in Australia. Since the international success of the trilogy—the original English version of which has been translated and published in seventeen countries—the author for whom c Pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing, she aims to write stories in pre-Contact Tahiti, “when the ancestors were poets and philosophers”. As a teacher, Célestine works particularly with young audiences in the Pacific (Australian, French, Polynesian or Aboriginal) and has collaborated on several literary productions (plays, children’s books).
