Nathacha Appanah, October 3, 2025. PATRICE NORMAND/LEEXTRA VIA OPALE.PHOTO
By awarding the 2025 Prix Femina on Monday, November 3, to Mauritian author Nathacha Appanah for her novel La Nuit au cœur ("Night In The Heart," 2025, untranslated), the jury honored a body of work that, since her beginnings, has explored questions of origins, social and intimate violence and confinement.
Since her first novel, Les Rochers de poudre d'or ("The Rocks of Gold Dust," 2003), which recounts the journeys of Indians who came to Mauritius at the end of the 19th century to replace enslaved people on sugarcane plantations, the author, born in 1973 to an Indian family, has cultivated a distinctively lyrical writing style.
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