Axel Gauvin
Biography
Axel Gauvin was born in 1944 in Saint-Denis, La Réunion. His father was a planter and his mother a teacher. He studied natural sciences in France at the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud and afterwards became a teacher. He becomes involved in Réunion political groups, fighting for greater recognition for the Réunion Creole language and for political autonomy for the country. He writes polemical articles and books on the topic and produces short stories, plays and novels in both Creole and French.
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Axel Gauvin (in French)
Bibliography
Works in French only. He has also written in Creole.
1977 Du créole opprimé au créole libéré (non-fiction)
1980 Quartier Trois-Lettres [Three-Letters District] (novel)
1987 Faims d’enfance (novel)
1988 La borne bardzour / Les Limites de l’aube (drama)
1990 L’Aimé (novel)
1996 Cravate et fils [Tie and Son] (novel)
2000 Train fou (novel)
2003 Petit traité de traduction créole réunionnais-français (non-fiction)
2004 L’écriture du créole réunionnais : les indispensables compromis (non-fiction)
2006 Oui au créole, oui au français (with Yvette Duchemann, Fabrice Georger and Laurence Daleau) (non-fiction)
2006 Abder (children’s)
2010 Le créole réunionnais : langue maternelle et régionale, enjeu sociétal