Shenaz Patel
Shenaz Patel is a Mauritian writer.
She was born on Mauritius and writes in both French and Mauritian Creole. Patel was one of a group of Mauritian writers who founded the literary journal Tracés. She has translated two Tintin stories into Creole: Le Secret de la Licorne and Trésor de Rackham le Rouge.
Her first play La phobie du caméléon was awarded the Prix Beaumarchais.
In 2014, Vents d'ailleurs published her novella Paradis Blues, which is written in French with Creole interspersed through the narration.
In 2016, she was a participant in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, IA.Selected works
Novels
- Le Portrait Chamarel, received the Prix Radio France du Livre de l'Océan Indien
- Sensitive, received the Prix du Roman Francophonee
- Le Silence des Chagos, received the Prix Soroptimist de la Romancière francophone
- Paradis Blues
Stories
- "À l'encre d'un nom" in Au tour des Femmes
- "Ille était une fois" in Maurice, demain et après
- "Do-do, l'enfant" in Histoires d'enfants
- "Marée noire" in Nocturnes
- "Zistwar mistran" in Nouvelles de l'étrange, Creole
- "Nous avons pris des bateaux" and "Anvolé" in Voyages
- "Désir de mer" and "Lamer inn fermé" in En mer
- "Incroyable, dites-vous" and "Si ziraf pa kapav anvalé" in Histoires incroyables
- "Zistwar sosouri" in Zistwar zanimo, Creole
- "L'envers du ciel" in De l'autre côté du ciel
Plays
- Esper Godo, a translation into Mauritian Creole of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
