Author · Madagascar
Dox
Died in 1978
Jean Verdi Salomon Razakandraina was born on 13 January 1913 in Manankavaly, the son of a doctor, and was raised in part by his grandparents. A student at the fine arts school in Antananarivo in 1930, then at the Paul Minault school, he was given the nickname Dox, gave up the medical studies his father wanted, became a farmer in Mandoto in 1940, then a teacher in Antsirabe. A member of the Democratic Movement for Malagasy Renewal, he was wounded by a bullet in 1947. Co-founder of the Union of Malagasy Poets and Writers, translator of Corneille and Shakespeare, he entered the Malagasy Academy in 1975 and died on 14 June 1978.