Ny Avana Ramanantoanina

Ny Avana Ramanantoanina was born on 26 February 1891 in Ambatofotsy, near Antananarivo. A member of the Vy Vato Sakelika, a nationalist secret society, he was arrested when it was broken up and held in Mayotte from 1915 to 1922. Back as a bookshop clerk, he founded the Mitady ny very movement and in 1931 launched the newspaper Fandrosoam-baovao with Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo and Charles Rajoelisolo. A poet, storyteller and playwright, he died on 5 March 1940 in Antananarivo; his banned writings did not reappear in Madagascar until the eighties.

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• PoetryNy anayNy Avana Ramanantoanina · 1912not translated into EnglishLiterature