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• PoetryLes Essais d'un bobre africainFrançois Chrestien · 1822not translated into EnglishIt is the first literary text written in Mauritian Creole, printed when slavery was still practised on the island.Literature
• TaleLe Folk-lore de l'île MauriceCharles Baissac · 1888not translated into EnglishHalf a century after abolition, the tales once told by former slaves are no longer being told.Literature
• PoetrySens-PlastiqueMalcolm de Chazal · 1945Thousands of thoughts in which man is read in the flower and the stone, by a Mauritian engineer whom André Breton hailed.Literature
• NovelAdvocate of the IsleLe Notaire des NoirsLoys Masson · 1961A young heir to a notary's practice takes the side of the blacks, in a Mauritius of cyclones, poverty and anger.Literature
• NovelBlood-Red Sweatलाल पसीनाAbhimanyu Unnuth · 1977Two generations of Indian indentured labourers against the cane planters of Mauritius, in the nineteenth century, in a novel written in Hindi.Literature
• NovelÀ l'autre bout de moiMarie-Thérèse Humbert · 1979not translated into EnglishTwins with nothing in common, in the mixed society of Mauritius, by a novelist settled in France.Literature
• NovelRue la PoudrièreAnanda Devi · 1989not translated into EnglishIn the overcrowded districts of Port-Louis, poverty leaves little way out for girls born with nothing.Literature
• TheatreToufann: A Mauritian FantasyToufannDev Virahsawmy · 1991Shakespeare's The Tempest reinvented in Mauritian Creole, between robots, screens and séga.Literature
• CinemaÀ Lucy (Maasai Connection)Radha Jaganathen · 1993Long before the debates on restitution, a filmmaker imagines Maasai coming to fetch Lucy from a museum in Paris.Cinema

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