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Magda Mamet

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Magda Mamet
Born1916
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
Diedlate January 2012
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
GenreVers libre

Magda Mamet (1916 – late January 2012[1]) was a Mauritian-born poet.

Biography

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Magda Mamet was born in 1916 in Beau Bassin-Rose Hill to a Franco-Mauritian family, she was the daughter of Evenor Mamet, himself a poet. After studying at Sorbonne University, she returned to Mauritius and became a literary critic in a newspaper on the island, Le Cernéen [fr]. She then began to publish collections of poetry. Her first poems were published in Mauritian literary journal L'Essor.[2] She was one of the first female writers on the island, even though she was preceded in the interwar period by another poet, Raymonde de Kervern.[3]

Her poetry is characterised by social themes, such as injustice and hypocrisy, likely due to her attachment to Catholicism and, in turn, by the use of vers libre.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "POÉSIE: Magda Mamet s'en est allée". Le Mauricien (in French). 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  2. ^ a b Riffard 2013, p. 2733
  3. ^ Issur & Hookoomsing 2001, p. 396

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