Khal Torabully
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Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet.[1] He is a poet, essayist, film director and semiologist. He has won several literary awards, including Lettres-Frontière, Switzerland, Prix du Salon du Livre Insulaire, France and Prix Missives, France. He coined the word 'coolitude'.[1] Later, he was known as the 'Father of Coolitude'.[2]
Background
Torabully was born in the capital city Port Louis, Mauritius in 1956. His father was a Trinidadian sailor and his mother was a descendant of migrants from India and Malaya. He studied comparative literature at the University of Lyon II from 1976. Later, he did his PhD thesis in semiology of poetics with Michel Cusin.
He has authored over 25 books.[3] His indulged in linguistic acrobatics, like wordplay and neologisms, to heighten the seriousness of his themes.[4]
Films
- Pic Pic, Nomade d’une île, 1996.
- La traboule des vagues, multi broadcast 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
- 21st-century French poets
- University of Lyon alumni