Ex absurdo sequitur quodlibet

Nerisha Yanee Dewoo was born in Mauritius in 1991. She is the second child of Jeannine and Sumangal. Criticized at a very young age because she speaks French instead of Creole, she decides, as she grows up, to explore both languages. She begins to write, moving between cultures, immersed in two different worlds and various Mauritian stories.

Moshumee Teena Dewoo was born a child of Surinam in Mauritius, on a 23rd December. She grew up in between a mountain and the beach, running the fields and climbing trees, and her head in books, and learning of things that her parents and grandparents thought best she knew. Her life would forever be influenced by a combatant grandfather, a baptised grandmother, a teaching mother and a Hindu father, all descendants of migrants constantly seeking to define themselves and the world around them through words…