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E. D. Andriamalala

Died in 1979

Emilson Daniel Andriamalala was born in 1918 into a family of the Merina aristocracy and was brought up in Tamatave by his grandparents; he studied at the school of the French Protestant mission in the town, then at the Paul Minault school in Tananarive. A poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, author of radio plays, essayist and translator, he worked in publishing after independence. He is held to be the best known of the novelists writing in Malagasy. He died in 1979.

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