Natacha Appanah

Ashwiny Kistnareddy (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Kate Averis, University of Western Australia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 24 May 1973
Activity 2003-ongoing

Places

Active in France

Activities

Primary

Fiction

Resources

Appanah's Works

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Popular prize-winning novelist Nathacha Devi Pathareddy Appanah, known as Nathacha Appanah (and who formerly published under the name of Nathacha Appanah-Mouriquand), was born in Mahebourg, a Southern Mauritian village, on 24 May 1973. Her family is of traditional South Indian (Telugu) origin. Her mother is a retired primary school teacher and is the only immediate family member who reads her work. In an interview, Appanah reveals that her parents had different career plans for her as “for them writing is not a real profession” and since “Mauritius is a conservative and traditional society, other people’s opinions are very important and now [her] parents’ friends and people in society describe [her] as a writer” (Rice 2007). Appanah opines that if she had had “Western…

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Citation: Kistnareddy, Ashwiny. "Natacha Appanah". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 March 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14852, accessed 25 November 2024.]