Novelist The Mango’s Kiss: a Novel (Le Baiser de la mangue, Au vent des Iles, 2005), Leaves of the Banyan Tree (Les feuilles du Banyan, Au vent des Iles, 2008), short story writer, poet Inside us the Dead (Au fond de nous les morts, Le Décaèdre, 2004), playwright and painter, Albert Wendt is undoubtedly the writer who has contributed the most to the emergence of English-language literature in the Pacific.