Jean-Luc Raharimanana

• Born — 26 June 1967 • Language — French, Malagasy • Birthplace — Antananarivo, Madagascar • Years Active — 1989-present • Education — University of Antananarivo, University of Paris, Institut National des langues et civilisations orientales • Awards — Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Award for Poetry, Tardivat International Award For Best French Language Fiction, Tchicaya-U'Tamsi Prize, Great Fiction Prize of Madagascar

He wrote his first book in his native country, but he was unable to publish it because of the political situation. He went to France to study ethnolinguistics at the University of Paris and the Institut National des langues et civilisations orientales following his graduation from the University of Antananarivo in 1989, due to a stipendium he received from the RFI. After completing his studies in France, Raharimanana went on to work as a journalist and French teacher. In his works, Raharimanana often describes the situation of poverty and corruption and the history in his homeland in a violent and lyrical style. Several of his screenplays have been adapted for theatre and he is the subject of the 2004 documentary Gouttes d’encre sur l’île rouge. Raharimanana's works have been translated into German, English, Italian, and Spanish. Raharimanana currently lives in Paris.

His first play "Le prophète et le président" won the Tchicaya-U'Tamsi Prize in 1990, awarded by the Inter-African theatre competition, but the theatre performance was banned by Madagascar's government owing to the political nature of the play. In June 2002, Raharimana's father Vénance Raharimanana, a history professor at the University of Antananarivo, was tortured and subsequently arrested following a radio program he hosted that dealt with the pre-colonial tension in Madagascar. He writes about the experience in his short story collection L'arbre anthropophage.

• Le lépreux et dix-neuf autres nouvelles. Paris: Hatier, 1992. • Lucarne. Paris: Le Serpent à plumes, 1996. • Rêves sous le linceul. Paris: Le Serpent à plumes, 1998.

• Za. Paris: Philippe Rey, 2008. • Nour, 1947. Paris: Le Serpent à Plumes, 2001; La Roque d’Anthéron: Vents d’Ailleurs, 2017. • Revenir. Paris: Rivages, 2018.

• Les cauchemars du gecko. La Roque d’Anthéron: Vents d’Ailleurs, 2011. • Enlacement(s). Coffret de trois livres: Des Ruines, Obscena et Il n’y a plus de pays. La Roque d’Anthéron: Vents d’Ailleurs, 2012. • Empreintes. La Roque d’Anthéron: Vents d’Ailleurs, 2015.

• Title — Producer — Premiered • Lépreux — RFI — 1990 • Le prophète et le président — Christiane Ramanantsoa (Madagascar), Vincent Mambatchaka (Benin, Togo, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Central Africa, France — 1993 • Le puits — Maison du Geste et de l’Image, TILF, Théâtre de la Villette — 1997 • Le Tambour de Zanahary — Twamay Association — 2000 • La Femme, la dinde, les deux compères et la bouteille — Frédéric Robin — 2004 • Milaloza — Bernadette Baratier and Laure-Marie Legay (Burkina Faso, Mali, France, Niger) — 2004 • Lemahery et le caméléon — Fabrice (Faffa) Andriamilantonirinason and Jean Ramanambita — 2006 • 47 — Revue Frictions — 2008 • Les Cauchemars du Gecko — Thierry Bedard — 2010 • Des Ruines... la liesse et l’oubli — Thierry Bedard — 2010 • Parfois le vide — Jean-Luc Raharimanana — 2016

Jean-Luc Raharimanana is recorded as writer, journalist, playwright, teacher and poet.

• Landisoa and the three pebbles. Illustrations by Jean A. Ravelona. Vanves: Édicef / Hachette, 2001.

• La littérature malgache. Interculturel Francophonies (Lecce, Italie) 1 (June–July 2001) • Identités, langues et imaginaires dans l’Océan Indien. Interculturel Francophonies 4 (November–December 2003) • Jacques Rabemananjara. Interculturel Francophonies 11 (June–July 2007) • Les Comores, une littérature en archipel (co-authored with Magali Nirina Marson). Interculturel Francophonies 19 (June–July 2011)

• L’Arbre anthropophage. Paris: Gallimard/Joëlle Losfeld, 2004. • Tsiaron’ny nofo. Îlle-sur-Tête: K’A, 2008.