Magie Faure-Vidot (also known as Mrs. Maggie Vijay-Kumar or Magic Mags) is a French-language poet from the Seychelles who has also published work in English and Seychellois Creole. She is a member of the Institut Académique de Paris and the Académie Internationale de Lutèce. She has received numerous prizes, including the Coupe de la Ville de Paris, a Lyre d'honneur, and medals in various international literary competitions. Her work has been discussed in critical studies of Seychellois literature, and she has garnered recognition as an oral performer. Her work has been featured at international poetry festivals, and she has represented her home country on various literary platforms.
Life and career
Magie Faure-Vidot was born in Victoria, Seychelles.
After living in the United States, Lebanon, England, Italy, and France, Faure-Vidot returned to the Seychelles. There she co-founded and currently co-directs the online literary review Vents Alizés and the online publishing house Edisyon Losean Endyen, both of which she runs in conjunction with Hungarian poet Károly Sándor Pallai. 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. She is also heavily engaged in the cultural life of her country, and she has shown her work at exhibitions of art by local women. 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. She writes for Spirit of Nature, where she is featured among the 60 poets to be published in 2019. Opa Anthology of Poetry 2019.
She is a member of the World Nations Writers Union (WNWU) in Kazakhstan. She is the Regional Director for East Africa and Asia and a Director Board Member of the Motivational Strips, the World's Most Active Writers' Forum. She is a member of the UHE and serves as the President in Seychelles for the UHE and the Continental Coordinator for the UHE in Africa.
Her work was featured in the "Family Eternal Treasure" international anthology (2018). She has attended various international literary conferences such as those in Luxembourg, Mauritius, La Reunion, Poetic Prism in Vijayawada, Andrapradesh, Isisar Kolkata, France, and has been translated into some foreign languages and included in various international literary journals.
Works
Whispers of Souls/Murmures des âmes by Les Éditions du Net, France, 2020. The Enchanting Rebirth/ Une Renaissance Magique, Arthee Editions 2019. L'Oasis des mots, Victoria, Edisyon Losean Endyen, 2016. Rêves créoles, Victoria, Edisyon Losean Endyen, 2012. Flamme mystique, Victoria, Yaw Enterprises, 2011. L'âme errante, Victoria, Printec Press Holdings, 2003. Un grand cœur triste, Paris, La Pensée Universelle, 1983.