Ny Avana Ramanantoanina Malagasy Playwright
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1890
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| Birthplace |
Ambatofotsy, Madagascar
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| Died |
1940
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| Place of Death |
Antananarivo, Madagascar
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| Nationality |
Malagasy
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| Occupation Text |
Poet, writer
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| Occupation |
Playwright
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Ny Avana Ramanantoanina (1891–1940) is among the most celebrated literary artists of Madagascar. He is principally renowned for his poetry, but also wrote stories and plays. He wrote during the colonial period and is considered to have been the first Malagasy writer to weave political messages into his work. He wrote primarily in the Malagasy language. A contemporary of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, who is commonly cited as the first African poet to write according to Western conventions, Ramanantoanina was highly critical of the French colonial authority. He was a member of the secret nationalist organization Vy Vato Sakelika, and was exiled to Mayotte in the Comoros when the organization was banned by the French colonial authority in 1917. His writings were consequently banned and were not reprinted until the 1980s in Madagascar. As a result, his writings are relatively less well known in international literary circles than those of Rabearivelo.
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