Nathacha Appanah is a Romancière born with Maurice in 1973.

Career

It leaves for France in 1998, to live there.

The Journalism and the edition impassion it, and it follows a formation in these two fields, before publishing its first book, the Rocks of Gold Powder, on the history of the Coolie S or Engagé S come from the Indies.

In its following novel, Blue Bay De luxe hotel , it gives to see the difficulties of the community Hindou E, torn between its Tabou S and Préjugé S of class, whereas Maurice is upset by tourism of mass.

the Wedding of Anna occurs in France. The narrator, writer and journalist, Marie her Anna daughter, and this event makes go up whole pieces of its childhood Mauritian and a whole life marked by the tear and the remorses.

the Last Brother tells the history of two children, Raj, tortured by the death as of his, and of David, a Jew parked with the country Mauritian by the British colonial authorities.

Novels

• 2003 : gold Powder Rocks, Gallimard
• 2004: Blue Bay De luxe hotel , Gallimard
• 2005: the Wedding of Anna , Gallimard
• 2007: the Last Brother , Editions Olivier

Distinctions

• 2003 : Price RFO

• 2004: Price Rosine-Perrier
• 2005: The literary of Indian Oceans and Peaceful Grand Prix
• 2006: Price Passion
• 2006: Price general public of the Living room of the book
• 2007: Price of the readers of Fnac