Magda Mamet
Mauritian poet (1916–2012)
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Magda Mamet (1916 – late January 2012[1]) was a Mauritian-born poet.
Magda Mamet | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1916 |
| Died | late January 2012 |
| Genre | Vers libre |
Biography
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. 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]
