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Join date: Oct 15, 2021
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Bonjour! I am Joëlle from Swan Hill, VIC in Australia. Swan Hill is about 4 hours drive from Melbourne CBD. Many would know Swan Hill for it's Mighty Murray River or the Pioneer Settlement. I am in awe of this beautiful place I now call home... the river, the landscape, the colours, the people...Nostalgia sometimes gets the better of me as I recall Mauritius, the place I once called home... the sea, the landscape, the colours, the people...I often travel through stories and literature, reading and re-reading favorites stories from Mauritius. So many stories of resilience. This blog brings together my love of literature and rediscovering my cultural heritage.
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Dec 31, 2025 ∙ 4 min
Portrait of an Island on Fire
Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi was released in the UK on the 19th of June 2025. I could not wait for the October Australian release date and purchased the eBook in June. Portrait of an Island on Fire is banned in Mauritius and it somehow made me want to read it more. I am excited to announce that Portrait of an Island on Fire is now available here . The first article of Saramandi that I read was in Electric Literature (21 January 2022). I had just started Mo Zistwar and...
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Mar 11, 2025 ∙ 2 min
Mauritius
Mauritius by Teresa Rebeck is a play that had it's world premier at the Boston Centre for the Arts in the 6th of October 2006. A year...
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Mar 1, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Mauritius sketchbook
Mauritius sketchbook (2004) was beautifully painted by Sophie Ladame and written by Yvan Martial. This is the first non-fiction book to...
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Dec 30, 2024 ∙ 3 min
Ni chaînes ni maîtres
Ni chaînes ni maîtres by Audrey Mafouta-Bantsimba (2024) is the novel adaptation of the movie Ni chaînes ni maîtres by Simon Moutaïrou...
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Sep 6, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's adventures in wonderland/ Les aventures d' Alice au pays des merveilles (1865) by Charles Dodgson was written under his...
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Aug 18, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Before the coffee gets cold
Before the coffee gets cold is a novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated from Japanese to English by Geoffrey Trousselot. The french...
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Jul 20, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Le Cantique du rasta
‘Le Cantique du rasta’ (2021) by Sharon Paul is inspired by the life and death of famous Mauritian musician, Kaya, who tragically passed...
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May 31, 2024 ∙ 2 min
Le ciel par-dessus le toit
Le ciel par-dessus le toit (2019) is written by Mauritian born author Natacha Appanah and translated into English by Geoffrey Strachan ...
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Oct 7, 2023 ∙ 2 min
The boy who had never seen the sea
Celui qui n'avait jamais vu la mer, by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, is the story of Daniel who longs to see the ocean. That is all he...
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Sep 25, 2023 ∙ 2 min
Blue Bay Palace
Blue Bay palace by Natacha Appanah is the story of Maya who ventures from her humble town of Blue Bay, Mauritius, to discover a world of...
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