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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 edit
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).
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- 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.