Magie Faure-Vidot

Magie Faure-Vidot was born in Victoria. She is a member of the Institut Académique de Paris and the Académie Internationale de Lutèce.^[3] She has received numerous prizes, including the Coupe de la Ville de Paris, a Lyre d'honneur, and medals in various international literary competitions.^[4][5][6][7] Her work has been discussed in critical studies of Seychellois literature,^[8][9][10] and she has garnered recognition as an oral performer.^[11] Her work has been featured at international poetry festivals, and she has represented her home country on various literary platforms.^[12][13][14]

After living in the United States, Lebanon, England, Italy, and France, Faure-Vidot returned to the Seychelles.^[2] There she co-founded and currently co-directs the online literary review Vents Alizés^[15] and the online publishing house Edisyon Losean Endyen, both of which she runs in conjunction with Hungarian poet Károly Sándor Pallai.^[16] Her work is regularly published in Seychelles Nation and The People, and she is the Chief Editor and Director of Publication of Sipay, the only Seychellois International literary magazine.^[17][18][4] She is also heavily engaged in the cultural life of her country,^[7][19] and she has shown her work at exhibitions of art by local women.^[20] Her poems were published in the international poetry anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism in India. In 2017, 2018, and 2019, she received the Seychelles Arts Award in literature for her literary work.^[21] She writes for Spirit of Nature, where she is featured among the 60 poets to be published in 2019. Opa Anthology of Poetry 2019.