Touhfat Mouhtare

Mouhtare was born 1986 in Moroni, Comoros.^[1] She has lived in various countries in Africa, and studied in France,^[2][3] where she received a master's degree in communications from the University of Paris.^[4]

She is the second published Comorian woman prose writer, after Coralie Frei,^[5] and has also published poetry.^[6] Âmes suspendues, a collection of novellas, was published in 2011.^[1] Her first novel, Vert cru, was published in 2018.^[1] Her writings evolve around mythology, transgenerational memory, psychology, spirituality, and humanism.^[7]

As of 2022, she lived in Paris.^[1]