Author · Madagascar
Samuel Ratany
Died in 1926
Samuel Ratany was born on 16 July 1901 in Ankadibevava, in Antananarivo, and died in October 1926, aged twenty-five. A pupil at the Paul Minault Protestant school, he wrote from the age of fifteen, then gave his poems and short stories to the Revue de Madagascar, to Tanamasoandro and to Ny Mpanolo-tsaina. A friend of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, he restored the forms of oral poetry, sasy, rary, antsa and hainteny, to honour, and defended Malagasy genres against the models imposed by colonisation. His poems were not collected until 1993.
In the catalogue 1
- PoetryIzay ho feoko eo am-pialana ainaSamuel Ratany · 1927not translated into EnglishLiterature