Khal Torabully
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Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet. Born in Mauritius in 1956, in the capital city Port Louis, his father was a Trinidadian sailor and his mother was a descendant of migrants from India and Malaya.
Work
Khal Torabully left for Lyon in 1976, to study at the University of Lyon II. After studies in comparative literature, Torabully wrote a PhD thesis in semiology of poetics with Michel Cusin.
Khal Torabully has won several literary awards, among which [Lettres-Frontière] (Switzerland), [Prix du Salon du Livre Insulaire] (France) and [Prix Missives] (France).
Films
- Pic Pic, Nomade d’une île, 1996.
- La traboule des vagues, multibroadcast Tele Lyon Metropole.
- Malcolm de Chazal, (52’), portrait of an artist, with France Telecom.
- Portraits de Mémoire en Gironde, France, 2010.
- The Maritime Memory of the Arabs, Oman TV, Chamarel Films, France 2001.
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Mauritian writers
- 20th-century French poets
- People from Port Louis District
- Mauritian people of Indian descent
- Mauritian people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
- Mauritian people of Malaysian descent
- French male poets
- French people of Indian descent
- French people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
- French people of Malaysian descent
- 21st-century Mauritian writers
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- University of Lyon alumni