Gerty Dambury

Gerty Dambury (born 1957) is a writer, educator and theatre director from Guadeloupe. Since 1981, she has written several plays including ''Lettres indiennes'' (1996) translated as ''Crosscurrents'' (1997). Her first novel ''Les rétifs'' (2012) appeared in English as ''The Restless'' in 2018. It is centred on the police violence in French Guadeloupe in 1967. For her play ''Le rêve de William Alexander Brown'', she was awarded the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde in 2015. Provided by Wikipedia