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Shenaz Patel


Born
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Mauritius
Genre
Fiction, Drama, Children's


Shenaz Patel is a journalist and writer from the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. She has been a Reuter fellow, worked as editor in chief of a political newspaper, before setting up of the arts, culture and society section of one of Mauritius' biggest weekly where she still works as a columnist.

Patel has published four novels, numerous short stories in French and Mauritian Creole, two plays, three graphic novels, and four children's books. She was an IWP (International Writers Program) Honorary Fellow in the U.S. in 2016, and was a fellow at the Hutchins Centre-W.E.B du Bois Institute at Harvard University in 2018. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 297 ratings · 76 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors
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Paradis Blues
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Nouvelles de l'Île Maurice
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