Author · Madagascar
Jacques Rabemananjara
Died in 2005
Jacques Rabemananjara was born on 23 June 1913, in Maroantsetra according to most sources, in Antananarivo according to others, and attended the seminaries of Sainte-Marie island and of Antananarivo before going to Paris in 1939. A co-founder of the Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache, elected deputy in 1946, he was arrested after the uprising of 1947, sentenced to death, then to life imprisonment, and pardoned in 1956. A minister of independent Madagascar, he chose exile in France after 1972, received the grand prix de la francophonie in 1988 and died in Paris in early April 2005.
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- PoetryAntsaJacques Rabemananjara · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature