Jacques Bourgeacq is professor of French at the University of Iowa, specializing in African literature for the past twenty-five years. He lived in Madagascar as a child and returned to the island in 1996 on a Fulbright grant to research the Malagasy culture and literature.Liliane Ramarosoa is on the faculty at the Université d'Antananarivo. She specializes in the literatures of the Indian Ocean and francophone Africa and has lectured widely in that region of the world, as well as in Europe.

"There is currently a Madagascan boom in literary production—short stories, novels, plays—that has not yet reached the United States. Voices from Madagascar brings a wide selection of these texts, both in French and English, to the North American public for the first time." (Translation Journal) "In his helpful introduction, Bourgeacq traces the history of Francophone writing, which began in Madagascar around 1930. Recommended for academic and public libraries, this book will be of interest to scholars of Malagasy culture." (Library Journal)

Jacques Bourgeacq is professor of French at the University of Iowa, specializing in African literature for the past twenty-five years. He lived in Madagascar as a child and returned to the island in 1996 on a Fulbright grant to research the Malagasy culture and literature.Liliane Ramarosoa is on the faculty at the Université d'Antananarivo. She specializes in the literatures of the Indian Ocean and francophone Africa and has lectured widely in that region of the world, as well as in Europe.

"There is currently a Madagascan boom in literary production—short stories, novels, plays—that has not yet reached the United States. Voices from Madagascar brings a wide selection of these texts, both in French and English, to the North American public for the first time." (Translation Journal) "In his helpful introduction, Bourgeacq traces the history of Francophone writing, which began in Madagascar around 1930. Recommended for academic and public libraries, this book will be of interest to scholars of Malagasy culture." (Library Journal)

Jacques Bourgeacq is professor of French at the University of Iowa, specializing in African literature for the past twenty-five years. He lived in Madagascar as a child and returned to the island in 1996 on a Fulbright grant to research the Malagasy culture and literature.Liliane Ramarosoa is on the faculty at the Université d'Antananarivo. She specializes in the literatures of the Indian Ocean and francophone Africa and has lectured widely in that region of the world, as well as in Europe.

"There is currently a Madagascan boom in literary production—short stories, novels, plays—that has not yet reached the United States. Voices from Madagascar brings a wide selection of these texts, both in French and English, to the North American public for the first time." (Translation Journal) "In his helpful introduction, Bourgeacq traces the history of Francophone writing, which began in Madagascar around 1930. Recommended for academic and public libraries, this book will be of interest to scholars of Malagasy culture." (Library Journal)