Sylviane Vayaboury
{{short description|French writer}}
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| birth_place = Cayenne, French Guiana, France
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| nationality = French
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Sylviane Vayaboury (born 20 April 1960){{cite web|url=https://ile-en-ile.org/vayaboury/|title=Sylviane Vayaboury |website=Ile en Ile|date=7 December 2010 |access-date=25 September 2020|language=fr}} is a French Guianese writer.
Biography
Vayaboury was born in 1960 in Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana, to an Indo-Guadeloupean father and a Guianese mother. She was raised an aunt and uncle whom she considered her adoptive grandparents, growing up in Guadeloupe, and in Fort-de-France, Martinique, as well as in French Guiana,{{Cite web|date=2010-12-07|title=Sylviane Vayaboury|url=http://ile-en-ile.org/vayaboury/|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Île en île|language=fr-FR}} and she was never able to build a substantial relationship with her parents, with whom she only reconnected later in their lives.{{Cite web|title=Sylviane Vayaboury - Biographie, publications (livres, articles)|url=https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index_harmattan.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=12649|access-date=2020-09-17|website=www.editions-harmattan.fr|language=fr}}
After finishing secondary school in 1978, Vayaboury attended a normal school and became a teacher. She then moved to France, where she lived for 15 years until 2005, when she returned to French Guiana.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=1960|title=Sylviane Vayaboury|url=http://evene.lefigaro.fr/celebre/biographie/sylviane-vayaboury-24974.php|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Le Figaro|language=fr}} She continued to work as a teacher in France, receiving specialized training to assist children with disabilities.
Vayaboury began her writing career after the death of the adoptive grandparents who raised her.{{Cite web|date=2011-08-16|title=Sylviane Vayaboury, 5 Questions pour Île en île|url=http://ile-en-ile.org/sylviane-vayaboury-5-questions-pour-ile-en-ile/|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Île en île|language=fr-FR}} She is the author of two novels: Rue Lallouette prolongée, published in 2006, and La Crique, published in 2009.{{Cite book|last=Vayaboury, Sylviane.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/470453133|title=Rue Lallouette prolongée : roman|date=2006|publisher=L'Harmattan|others=Impr. Corlet)|isbn=2-296-00795-3|location=Paris|pages=|oclc=470453133}}{{Cite book|last=Vayaboury, Sylviane.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/519249525|title=La crique : roman|date=2009|publisher=Harmattan|isbn=978-2-296-10556-0|location=Paris|oclc=519249525}} Her first book, Rue Lallouette prolongée, is a semi-autobiographical work that traces a path between the Antilles, French Guiana, and France. She counts among her influences Aimé Césaire, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Maryse Condé.{{Cite web|title=TV5MONDE : Sylviane Vayaboury|url=http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/publications/Ecrivains-d-Afrique-des-Caraibes-et-des-Antilles/Ecrivains-d-Afrique-des-Caraibes-et-des-antilles/p-8161-Sylviane-Vayaboury.htm|access-date=2020-09-17|website=TV5MONDE}}
Works
- Rue Lallouette prolongée (2006)
- La Crique (2009)
References
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Category:Caribbean women writers