The French Polynesian Woman
Myth and Reality
Flora Aurima Devatine born in 1942 in Tautira, on Tahiti’s peninsula, to tenant-farmer parents, Flora Aurima Devatine has taught Spanish and Tahitian in junior and senior high school and lectured in Tahitian language and poetry at the French University of the Pacific. She has also edited Littérama’ohi, the first journal of French Polynesian literature, founded in 2002. Her stand for the language is as strong as her commitment to women’s status and Ma’ohi culture. A major figure in French Polynesian literature, she chose Éditions Bruno Doucey to publish her poetry. Her collection Au vent de la piroguière – Tifaifai, in September 2016, won her the French Academy’s 2017 Heredia Prize.
She shares with us her vision of the French Polynesian woman: myth merging with reality.
Flora Aurima Devatine born in 1942 in Tautira, on Tahiti’s peninsula, to tenant-farmer parents, Flora Aurima Devatine has taught Spanish and Tahitian in junior and senior high school and lectured in Tahitian language and poetry at the French University of the Pacific. She has also edited Littérama’ohi, the first journal of French Polynesian literature, founded in 2002. Her stand for the language is as strong as her commitment to women’s status and Ma’ohi culture. A major figure in French Polynesian literature, she chose Éditions Bruno Doucey to publish her poetry. Her collection Au vent de la piroguière – Tifaifai, in September 2016, won her the French Academy’s 2017 Heredia Prize.
She shares with us her vision of the French Polynesian woman: myth merging with reality.
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