Magie Faure official member of World Nations Writers Union Kazakhstan |07 July 2018

“Congratulations to Magie Faure-Vidot Vijay-Kumar on being an official member of World Nations Writers Union (WNWU) Kazakhstan. She is widely read and loved around the world. Her inclusion is a matter of high importance for WNWU. We all heartily and cordially welcome her in the assemblage of world intellectuals.” 
Magie Faure-Vidot Vijay-Kumar was born in Victoria, Seychelles.  She is a member of the Institute Académique de Paris and the Académie Internationale de Lutèce.  She has won numerous international awards over the course of her career, including the Coupe de La Ville de Paris, a Lyre d’honneur, and six silver and numerous bronze medals, and others in various international poetry festivals and other initiatives. 

Her work has been discussed in critical studies of Seychellois literature, namely  by Carol Denis, in 1998, student at the National College of the Arts Graphics, Seychelles - a woman with difference, “LA LITTERATURE SEYCHELLOISE:  Production, promotion, et reception, de Pascale Canova (1 janvier 2017), Editions L’Harmattan pp. 1- ISBN 078-2-296-15962-4.  (http://www.google.com/books?id=d’On24iKa-C4C&pg=PP1), study carried out on ‘IDENTITE ET INSULAIRE DANS LA POESIE SEYCHELLOISE CONTEMPORAINE” by 29-year-old doctorate in Literature, Karoly Sandor Pallai, book in Universities in Louisiana, Hungary and the Seychelles.  She has also achieved some fame as an oral performer.
After living for some time in the Lebanon, England, Italy and France, Faure-Vidot returned to the Seychelles. There she cofounded and continues to codirect, both the online literary review Vents Alizé and the online publishing house Edisyon Losean Endyen, both of which she runs in conjunction with Hungarian poet Karoly Sandor Pallai.  Her work is regularly published in the Seychelles NATION, Today in Seychelles and The People. She is the editor of SIPAY, the only Seychellois literary magazine since 2009-date (on various themes) reaching its 20th edition in December 2018.
She is also engaged in the cultural life of her country, including showing her work at exhibitions of art by local women.  She has given many interviews to the Radio Seychelles and TV Seychelles.
Her poems were published in the international poetry anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism in Indi in 2017.  In 2017, she received the prestigious Seychelles Arts Award in the literature category for her outstanding literary work and achievements.