Georges Baudoux

Georges Baudoux was born in Paris in 1870 and arrived in New Caledonia in 1875, where his father had just been posted. At twelve, he left school for the printing works, then wrote for Le Moniteur de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. A trepang fisherman, sailor and cattle keeper, he was above all a miner in the north-west of the island, where he lived in contact with the tribes. His stories first appeared in the press under the pseudonym Thiosse, and his collection Légendes noires, published in Nouméa in 1925, made him the first Caledonian author of fiction published in book form. He died in 1949.

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• TaleLégendes canaquesGeorges Baudoux · 1928not translated into EnglishLiterature