Touhfat Mouhtare
Touhfat Mouhtare is a Comorian writer, and the second published women writer from Comoros.
Mouhtare was born 1986 in Moroni, Comoros. She has lived in various countries in Africa, and studied in France, where she received a master's degree in communications from the University of Paris.
Career
She is the second published Comorian woman prose writer, after Coralie Frei, and has also published poetry. Âmes suspendues, a collection of novellas, was published in 2011. Her first novel, Vert cru, was published in 2018. Her writings evolve around mythology, transgenerational memory, psychology, spirituality, and humanism.
Personal life
As of 2022, she lived in Paris.
- 2018: Mention spéciale du prix du Livre insulaire au salon d’Ouessant for Vert cru
- 2022: Prix Alain Spiess du deuxième roman for ''Le feu du milieu''