Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet. Born in Mauritius in 1956, in the capital city Port Louis, his father was a Trinidadian sailor and his mother was a descendant of migrants from India and Malaya.

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Khal Torabully left for Lyon in 1976, to study at the University of Lyon II. After studies in comparative literature, Torabully wrote a PhD thesis in semiology of poetics with Michel Cusin.

Khal Torabully has won several literary awards, among which [Lettres-Frontière] (Switzerland), [Prix du Salon du Livre Insulaire] (France) and [Prix Missives] (France).

• Pic Pic, Nomade d’une île, 1996.
• La traboule des vagues, multibroadcast Tele Lyon Metropole.
• Malcolm de Chazal, (52’), portrait of an artist, with France Telecom.
• Portraits de Mémoire en Gironde, France, 2010.
• The Maritime Memory of the Arabs, Oman TV, Chamarel Films, France 2001.