Author Biography
Rai CHAZE was born in Tahiti. Her parents are both mixed-blood polynesian. After several years spent in the USA, she returned to Tahiti. The links she had developed with Henri Hiro, a poet, the cultural renaissance leader, playwright, filmmaker, anti-nuclear activit and a keyman in Polynesian History, tightened over the years. She has published two collections of poetry, Toriri and I Te Rai Ra, several short stories and poems in Tahiti and Hawaii. In 1990, she published her first book Vai, the river in a cloudless sky, which is also the first work of prose in contemporary native literature. In October 2009, her first book for children, 'Tahitians Tales' is published by Les Editions Cornac, a Montreal, Canada, children publishing company. Apart from the numerous publications in anthologies or literary magazines, she published Before the rainy season. This novel invites the reader into the life of the islands through encounters and memories resulting in a saga across Polynesian History. Recently published, 'It snowed in the Tuamotu', a Children Christmas story, was also produced as a theatrical performance.
