Mayotte Capécia

Mayotte Capécia is the pen name of Lucette Céranus Combette, born in 1916 at Le Carbet, in Martinique, with a twin sister, to a mother who raised them alone. With little schooling, she worked as a teenager in a chocolate factory in Fort-de-France and became a mother at seventeen. Settled in France in 1946, she published two novels with Corrêa, in 1948 and in 1950, and died in Paris in 1955. Christiane Makward's research in her papers has shown that her books relied in part on the diary of a naval officer she had loved.

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• NovelI Am a Martinican WomanJe suis MartiniquaiseMayotte Capécia · 1948Literature