Boris Gamaleya

Boris Gamaleya (18 December 1930 St. Louis – 30 June 2019) was a Réunion poet, literary critic, linguist, folklorist, and social activist. He primarily wrote in French.

Biography

His father was Ukrainian, and his mother was reunion Creole. From his youth, he participated in the liberation struggle and subsequently experienced persecution from the French colonial administration: he was expelled from the island for 12 years. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Reunion. The author of several books of poetry, he published poems in Ukrainian (with translation by Victor Koptilov) in the magazine "The Universe" (1981) and the anthology "The Poetry of Africa" (1983).

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