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Dev Virahsawmy
Elected member of Legislative Assembly (Constituency No. 5 Pamplemousses-Triolet)
In office 1970–1972
Personal details
Born
(1942-03-16)16 March 1942 Quartier-Militaire, British Mauritius
Died
7 November 2023(2023-11-07) (aged 81) Rose Hill, Mauritius
Political party
MMM, MMMSP, Parti Travailliste
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942[1] – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole.[2]
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DevVirahsawmy (16 March 1942 – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he...
School. The committee's first elected members were Heeralall Bhugaloo, DevVirahsawmy, Jooneed Jeeroobhurkhan, Tirat Ramkissoon, Sushil Khushiram, Ah Ken...
of the MMMSP such as DevVirahsawmy, as well as Peter Craig and Dan Callikan of the FTU also assisted the new MSM. DevVirahsawmy designed the MSM's symbol...
(Kōkyū Shōsetsu, Bokkō). Albert Strickler, 68, French poet and author. DevVirahsawmy, 81, Mauritian political activist, founder of Mauritian Militant Movement...
currents, such as coolitude. After independence in 1968 writers like DevVirahsawmy reactivated creole language, then considered as a "patois," and wrote...
Vijaya Teelock Harry Krishnan Tirvengadum Khal Torabully Cassam Uteem DevVirahsawmy Football is the most popular sport amongst Mauritians. Vikash Dhorasoo...
South-African born Lindsey Collen-Seegobin writing in English and French, DevVirahsawmy writing mostly in Mauritian Creole and Abhimanyu Unnuth writing in Hindi...
Chasteauneuf near the round-about intersecting with Royal Road, Curepipe. MP DevVirahsawmy was a passenger on the rear seat of Hillman B614, as it was being driven...
arrestation de DevVirahsawmy et décès de Lall Jugnauth". L'Express. Retrieved 2018-08-02. "Il y a 48 ans: arrestation de DevVirahsawmy et décès de Lall...
there was too much social unrest. DevVirahsawmy and many others left the MMM in March 1973. Soon afterwards DevVirahsawmy formed a new party Mouvement Militant...
by Paul Bérenger and Heeralall Bhugaloo emerged. The first MMM MP (DevVirahsawmy) was elected in 1970 at a by-election of Constituency No. 5 following...
chose Labour Party's minister Simadree Virahsawmy's son DevVirahsawmy as the MMM's candidate, and DevVirahsawmy proved to be the right choice as he defeated...
Children (Chicago, 1919). The text from this was used much later by DevVirahsawmy to accompany his adaptation of the fable into Mauritian Creole as Zistwar...
such as Abhimanyu Unnuth in Hindi. Mauritius's renowned playwright DevVirahsawmy writes exclusively in Morisyen. Important authors include Eugénie Poujade...
founded by a splinter group led by linguist, playwright and politician DevVirahsawmy on 23 March 1973 soon after the dissidents had left the Mauritian Militant...
brother-in-law of DevVirahsawmy, who made history by becoming the first MMM politician to be elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1970. Dev's father, Simadree...
adding Indian instruments. Some of their lyrics are from early poems by DevVirahsawmy, including many of the poems from Les Lapo Kabri Gazuyé. Gauvin, Gilles...
which resulted in the election of the first ever MMM parliamentarian DevVirahsawmy. IFB's leader Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was Opposition Leader from 1971 to...
(1918-2015), Francophone and anglophone writer, war hero and former spy DevVirahsawmy (1942– ), Creolophone poet, novelist and essayist Hassam Wachill (1939–...
Much Ado About Nothing Mauritian French Creole Enn Ta Senn Dan Vid DevVirahsawmy Port Louis 1995 9789990333053 40200789 Macbeth Russian Макбет [Makbet]...
corporation in Ghana in his 1972 Mambo or Let's Play Games, My Husband. DevVirahsawmy's Zeneral Macbeff, first performed in 1982, adapted the story to the...
(MMM) had gained popularity, even electing its first ever candidate DevVirahsawmy to Parliament at the September 1970 by-elections at Constituency No...
against the MMM during the early 1970s. In 1973, the MMM was split with DevVirahsawmy creating a new party, the Mouvement Militant Mauricien Socialiste Progressiste...
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