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Mauritius

Author · Mauritius

Dev Virahsawmy

Died in 2023

Dev Virahsawmy was born on 16 March 1942 at Quartier-Militaire. Trained in languages and linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, where in 1967 he devoted a dissertation to Mauritian Creole, he was one of the three leaders of the Mouvement militant mauricien from 1968 to 1973 and its first elected member of the Assembly, in 1970. A playwright and poet, he wrote in Creole a long series of plays, from Li in 1977 to Dokter Hamlet in 1996, and died on 7 November 2023.

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