Barlen Pyamootoo is a writer and editor who lives in Trou-d'Eau-Douce, Mauritius, where he was born. Barlen Pyamootoo studied modern literature at the University of Strasbourg. After teaching in France and Mauritius from 1988 to 1995, he devoted himself to writing and publishing.
In 1999, he published his first novel "Bénarès" (éditions de l'Olivier), which was very well received by the critics. "A very small book, where each word is counted as a rare and precious commodity. Barely 100 pages, written in a language so simple, so pure that it seems transparent? G. Garcin
Three years later, he published his second work, "Le tour de Babylone" (Editions de l'Olivier - 2002): Barlen Pyamootoo takes us to this mythical city in Mesopotamia now torn apart by the war in Iraq. Far from being a tourist guide, this novel is more like soul geography. "Precise as a travel diary, this unreal account of Babylon is wrapped up in a winged writing, which twirls and knows how to linger on a look, an emotion.
He launched himself into the cinema with the adaptation of his first novel, which he directed. "Benares" has the particularity of having been shot in the language of the country: Mauritian Creole.