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Fiji

Fiji has no single literary voice: iTaukei and Rotuman traditions sit alongside Indo-Fijian experience. The Fantasy Eaters opens a short-story route, while The Wounded Sea approaches political tensions through autobiographical fiction. Moving Through the Streets offers urban fiction, and Sudesh Mishra brings poetry of travel and inheritance. Last Virgin in Paradise is a book-length play co-written by Rotuman author Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, whose cultural connections also included Kiribati.

Books to begin with

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Edition cover: Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller — Sudesh Mishra
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Sudesh Mishra

Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller

About the book

A poetry collection by a Fiji-born writer considers travel and cultural inheritance.

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Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller

Wakefield Press

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Subramani

The Fantasy Eaters: Stories from Fiji

About the book

Stories and a novella explore Indo-Fijian life and tensions between inherited traditions and individual desires.

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The Fantasy Eaters: Stories from Fiji

Three Continents Press

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Satendra Nandan

The Wounded Sea

About the book

A partly autobiographical novel examines Indo-Fijian experience and the 1987 coup.

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The Wounded Sea

Simon & Schuster / New Endeavour Press

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Joseph C. Veramu

Moving Through the Streets

About the book

Veramu’s novel depicts Fijian experiences of urban life.

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Moving Through the Streets

Mana Publications / Institute of Pacific Studies

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Vilsoni Hereniko i Teresia Teaiwa

Last Virgin in Paradise: A Serious Comedy

About the book

The play confronts tourist fantasies of island paradise with sexuality and power.

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Last Virgin in Paradise: A Serious Comedy

Mana Publications

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Edition cover: Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying — Sudesh Mishra
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Sudesh Mishra

Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying

About the book

Poems follow migration and travel while questioning home and colonialism.

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Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying

Otago University Press

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Sudesh Mishra

The Lives of Coat Hangers

About the book

This poetry collection turns everyday objects and far-reaching cultural references into reflections on language.

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The Lives of Coat Hangers

Otago University Press

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