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Song of Isles

Ariel Saramandi

Short pieces on Mauritius and Mauritian history

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  1. I don’t write about subjects that I haven’t obsessively researched. Tonight I’m writing about something that feels alien. There is so much information and I can’t pull a distinct, argumentative thread from the mass. And it is precisely b...
4 months ago
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Letter to a young Mauritian artist

Have you ever been held by your people?

I hope so. I hope you know what it feels like, to produce work that is valued by your community. Valued by the people you are writing for. Valued by your friends, who are good people, honest, smarte...

7 months ago
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Colonial afterlives in archaeological practice

I am thrilled to be publishing this interview with my long-time friend Aqiil Gopee, a formidably talented writer and academic.

For a while now I’ve been curious about academics who come to Mauritius for research. Though many of them ha...

9 months ago
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“Omwin Pravind ti partaze”

I have heard and seen this horrific phrase, and its variations, many times over the last three days.

An antidote to this kind of thinking - these sweeping, pernicious, nonsensical statements - is to get as specific as possible. And we’re...

a year ago
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The question I'm dreading

I’ve received some really wonderful words of praise from writers I greatly admire. And these writers have pointed out that the essays in the collection, though focused on Mauritius, show “the troubled connections – rapacious capitalism, rac...

a year ago
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  • Ariel Saramandi

    I'm a writer based in Mauritius. My work has appeared in Granta, The White Review, Brooklyn Rail, the LA Review of Books and many other places. ‘Portrait of an Island on Fire’ is out now with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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