Ari Gautier

Ari Gautier is a French author and poet of Malagasy and Tamil heritage who spent his childhood in Pondicherry and now lives in Oslo. His works, including ‘Lakshmi’s Secret Diary’, ‘The Thinnai’, ‘Nocturne Pondichéry’ and ‘Songes des archipels silencieux’, explore memory, colonial history, caste, exile, indentured labour and Pondicherry’s multicultural identity. Written across French, Tamil, English, Pondicherry Creole and other languages, his works have been translated and studied at universities internationally. His writing has earned international recognition, including a nomination for the Prix du Printemps du livre du forum de Saint Louis. He is also developing the literary genre ‘kréyofuturisme’.