Ony Ratsifandrihamanana

Ony Ratsifandrihamanana lives in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She wrote her debut novel, A Long Ballad of a Short Marriage, in French, before deciding it needed to be totally rewritten - in English. She has an MPhil in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights from the University of Oslo and works for a human rights organization. She has previously published a short story written in French, entitled 'Cher Peter', which won the Young French Language Writer Prize and the Young Reader Prize of the Lycée Pierre d’Aragon, and was published by Buchet-Chastel in 2013. In her spare time, she paints, reads and practices yoga and pole dancing.