Magda Mamet

Mauritian poet

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Magda Mamet
Born	1916 Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
Died	late January 2012 Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
Genre	Vers libre

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

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 [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

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

Bibliography and general references

Cornevin, Robert (13 March 1976). "Cent soixante-treize ans de littérature mauricienne" (in French). Le Monde..
Prosper, Jean-Georges (1994). Histoire de la littérature mauricienne de langue française (in French) (Éditions de l'océan Indien ed.). pp. 22, 25, 234, 349..
Noiray, Jacques; Hausser, Michel (1998). "Magda Mamet". Littératures francophones (in French). Éditions Belin. p. 180..
Issur, Kumari R.; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (2001). L'océan Indien dans les littératures francophones : pays réels, pays rêvés, pays révélés (in French). Éditions Karthala. p. 396..
Riffard, Claire (2013). Le dictionnaire universel des créatrices (in French). Éditions des femmes [fr]. p. 2733..