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The first modern African poet, a Merina named Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 or 1903–1937), gained celebrity for blending surrealist, romantic and modernist poetic forms with elements of traditional Malagasy oratory, as well as his suicide by cyanide in 1937.
Rabearivelo is the most internationally famous and influential Malagasy literary figure. [5] [12] Jeune Afrique described him as "Madagascar's greatest poet", [3] a sentiment echoed by Léopold Sédar Senghor, first president of Senegal and founder of the Négritude movement, who called him the "prince of the Malagasy poets". [2]
Régis Rajemisa-Raolison (1913– ), poet and educator; Michèle Rakotoson (1948– ), novelist, short story writer and playwright; Flavien Ranaivo (1914–1999), poet and writer; Esther Razanadrasoa (1892–1931), poet, novelist and journal editor; Edmond Randriamananjara aka Randja Zanamihoatra (1925 - 1997), poet
Jacques Rabemananjara (23 June 1913 – 2 April 2005) [1] was a Malagasy politician, playwright and poet. He served as a government minister, rising to Vice President of Madagascar. [2] Rabemananjara was said to be the most prolific writer of his negritude generation after Senghor, and he had the first négritude poetry published. [3]
These poems recall the Malagasy poetic tradition of hainteny with their emphasis on nostalgia and longing. The second category consists of poems that offer philosophical musings on the nature of identity, and are rich with Malagasy proverbs and Madagascar's symbolic places and objects. [2]
In its use of metaphor and allusion it resembles another type of poetry, the Malay pantun, and Fox [2] suggests "it seems likely the Merina brought with them a Malayo-Polynesian poetic tradition" to Madagascar. The Ibonia, an epic poem related for centuries in different versions across Madagascar, reflects the value placed on the linguistic ...
The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, Gorman stole the hearts of the country in 2021 with her elegant Inauguration Day poem, “The Hill We Climb” and has since been turning heads with ...
Elie Rajaonarison (November 15, 1951 - November 27, 2010) was a poet, artist, professor and civil servant from Madagascar.Considered the standard-bearer for modern Malagasy poetry, [1] Rajaonarison's published poetry anthologies earned him international recognition and have been translated into French and English.