Flora Devatine

Flora Aurima-Devatine (born October 15, 1942) is a Tahitian writer and educator. She publishes under her married name of Flora Devatine.

She was born Flora Aurima in Pari on the Tautira peninsula and was educated at the Lycée Paul Gauguin, continuing her studies in France where she received her baccalauréat and pursued studies in Spanish. She taught Spanish at the Lycée Collège Pomare IV from 1968 to 1997 and taught subjects including Polynesian poetry at the University of French Polynesia from 1987 to 1995. From 1979 to 1984, she served as State Commissioner for women's issues (Déléguée d’État à la Condition Féminine). From 2002 to 2006, she served as director for the cultural journal Littérama’ohi, Ramées de Littérature Polynésienne; she was head of the editorial board for the journal until 2010.

In June 2007 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Tahiti Nui.

Selected works

Source:

Vaitiare, Humeurs (1980) Tergiversations et rêveries de l’écriture orale: Te Pahu a Hono’ura. Papeete (1998)