Gerty Dambury
French playwright and novelist from Guadaloupe · France · On the map · Writers · Born 1957 · age 69
Gerty Dambury is a writer, educator and theatre director from Guadeloupe. Since 1981, she has written several plays including Lettres indiennes (1996) translated as Crosscurrents (1997). Her first novel Les rétifs (2012) appeared in English as The Restless in 2018.
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It is centred on the police violence in French Guadeloupe in 1967. For her play Le rêve de William Alexander Brown, she was awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde in 2015.
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Born 1957 · age 69
