Ananda Devi

Ananda Devi was born on 23 March 1957 at Trois-Boutiques, in Mauritius, to Indo-Mauritian parents of Telugu descent. At fifteen she won a short story competition run by Radio France Internationale. She holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of London, and is an ethnologist and translator; she lived for several years in Congo-Brazzaville before settling in 1989 at Ferney-Voltaire, near Geneva. Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie in 2006, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2024.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelRue la PoudrièreAnanda Devi · 1989not translated into EnglishLiterature