Esther Nirina

Esther Ranirinaharitafika, known as Esther Nirina, was born on 17 November 1932 in Ambohimifangitra, near Antananarivo, to a Malagasy father and a French mother. Settled in Orléans, she was a librarian there from 1953 to 1983, alongside Hélène Cadou. Back in Madagascar in 1990, she opened a library and a school in her native village, joined the Malagasy Academy and chaired the Society of Writers of the Indian Ocean; she published a collection in Malagasy only in 2004. She died on 19 June 2004.

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• PoetrySimple voyelleEsther Nirina · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature