Auguste Rajaonarivelo

Auguste Rajaonarivelo was born in 1898 and died in 1959. A novelist writing in Malagasy, he received the Les Belles-Lettres literary prize for a novel published in 1933, and a collection of literary and historical texts of his survives, undated. The reference works say nothing of his education, his occupations or his family. He wrote at a time when Malagasy prose fiction circulated mainly in weekly instalments sold in the markets, very few of which were ever published in book form.

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• NovelBinaAuguste Rajaonarivelo · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature