Magie Faure-Vidot
Magie Faure-Vidot (sometimes Mrs. Maggie Vijay-Kumar or Magic Mags) is a French-language poet from the Seychelles who has also published work in English and Seychellois Creole. Life and career. Magie Faure-Vidot was born in Victoria.She is a regional director for Motivational Strips, the world's most active writers forum with writers from 167 countries. She is also a member of the Institut Académique de Paris and the Académie Internationale de Lutèce. She has won numerous prizes 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 in various international literary competitions, and she has represented her home country at many international poetry festivals and other initiatives. Her work has been discussed in critical studies of Seychellois literature. She has also achieved some fame as an oral performer. After living for some time in the United States, Lebanon, England, Italy, and France, Faure-Vidot returned to the Seychelles. There she cofounded, and continues to codirect, both the online literary review "Vents Alizés" and the online publishing house Edisyon Losean Endyen, both of which she runs in conjunction with Hungarian  poet Károly Sándor Pallai. Her work is regularly published in "Seychelles Nation" and "The People", and she is the Chief Editor/Director of Publication of "Sipay", the only Seychellois International literary magazine. She is also heavily engaged in the cultural life of her country, including showing her work at exhibitions of art by local women. Her poems were published in the international poetry anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism in India. In 2017, 2018 and 2019. she received the prestigious Seychelles Arts Award in literature from 2017-2019 for her outstanding literary work and achievements. She writes for Spirit of Nature where  she features amongst the 60 poets to be published in 2019.Opa Anthology of Poetry 2019. She is a member of the World Nations Writers Union (WNWU) Kazakhstan. She is the Regional Director - East Africa and Asia and a Director Board Member of the Motivational Strips, World's Most Active Writers' Forum. On 21 December 2019 she was conferred with the PEACOCK o PINION, SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE, from Motivational Strips, it being a distinguished honour for providing qualitative assistance to World Literature. She is a member of the UHE to note the President in the Seychelles for the UHE as well as  Continental Coordinator for UHE in Africa Her work was featured in the "Family Eternal Treasure" international anthology (2018). She has attended to various international literary conferences such in Luxembourg, Mauritius, La Reunion, Poetic Prism in Vijayawada, Andrapradesh, Isisar Kolkata, France and has been translated into some foreign languages and included into various international literary journals. Talks given to the University of Seychelles, Primary and Secondary schools in the Seychelles, University, Colleges, primary and secondary schools in La Reunion, at the Creole Institute of the Seychelles. Interviewed by BBC.com.uk on 20 May 2020, by several other countries also such as Australia , France, Romania, Italy, India, Seychelles, Mauritius, Luxembourg, Tunisia published 26 SIPAY GLOBAL LITERARY JOURNAL. Works. French, English, Creole and Spanish. EDITIONS DU NET - France February 2020 Independence Day Literary & Artistic Prize 2022 in Germany.. Honour, 2nd time World Nation Writers' Union WNWU -June 2021 - June 2021 the top ranked No. 1 in Amazon in June 2021, of Excellence by WCHHD 5/04/21 the Hispanic World Writers Union (UHE) Seychelles. anniversary AL- FARABI Waheed Centre for Humanity and Humanitarian Development by Prince Waheed of WCHHD of Ghana 27/04/2020 Pallithazheth and Forum Director Sabrina Young of Motivational Strips. Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh - India on  21-22/12/2019.