Axel Gauvin

Axel Gauvin

Axel Gauvin (born August 3, 1944 in Le Bois-de-Nèfles a district of Saint-Denis on La Réunion ). He studied natural sciences in France and returned to Réunion after taking the state examination, where he has worked as a teacher and writer since 1973 .

Gauvin published five novels in French and several poems in Creole . He is also known for essays on Creole culture and language .

bibliography

So far, the following have been published in German:

• Childhood hunger ( Faims d'enfance , Roman 1987; German Peter Hammer Verlag , Wuppertal 1995)
• When you wake up, I'll be there ( L'Aimé , Roman 1990; German Hammer, Wuppertal 1997)
• The answer. Story, in Gudrun Honke, Ed .: Die Mondfrau. 23 new stories from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Translated from Giò Waeckerlin-Induni. Hammer, Wuppertal 1998 ISBN 3872948059 pp. 8–19 (first publ. - with short biography)

Works in French:

• You créole opprimé au créole libéré (1977). essay
• Trois-Lettres district (1980). novel
• Faims d'enfance (1987). novel
• La borne bardzour / Les Limites de l'aube. (1988). Play
• L'Aimé (1990). novel
• Cravate et fils (1996). novel
• Train fou (2000). novel
• Petit traité de traduction créole réunionnais-français (2003). essay

Works in Creole (selection):

• Létshi me (1970). Poems
• Pou êne grape létshi / Zistoir pou nir rish èk vin santime / Zistoir Tizan, Grandiabe, sitrouy èk poisson (1978). Novella
• Romanss po détak la lang, démaye lo kër (1983). Poems
• Kartié-trwa-lèt (1984). novel
• Po lodèr flèr bibas, teat 2 ak 7 tablo (1994). Play
• Bayalina (1995). novel
• Lamour kivi: Fonnkër-téat: po lir, po dir, po shanté, po zoué, po mime dessï (2002). Poems

Web links

• Literature by and about Axel Gauvin in the catalog of the German National Library