Myriam Warner-Vieyra (25 March 1939 – 29 December 2017)[1] was a Guadeloupean-born writer of novels and poetry.
[2] The daughter of Caribbean parents,[2] she was born Myriam Warner in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.
[3] She earned a diploma in library science at Cheikh Anta Diop University[2] and worked for several years as a librarian.
[2] Her first novel, written in 1980, was Le Quimboiseur l'avait dit (the 1983 English translation published by Longman was entitled As The Sorcerer Said), which is set in the Caribbean.
[3] Warner-Vieyra died aged 78 on 29 December 2017 in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France.