Dev Virahsawmy

Dev Virahsawmy
Elected member of Legislative Assembly (Constituency No. 5 Pamplemousses-Triolet)
In office
1970–1972
Personal details
Born(1942-03-16)16 March 1942
Quartier-Militaire, British Mauritius
Died7 November 2023(2023-11-07) (aged 81)
Rose Hill, Mauritius
Political partyMMM, MMMSP, Parti Travailliste
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh

Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942[1] – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole.[2]

  1. ^ "Ezop Pou Zanfan Lekol".
  2. ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica Online - Dev-Virahsawmy". britannica.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016.