French novelist
Marguerite-Hélène Mahé (1903 - 1996) was a French writer from Réunion, who is best known for her work "" (), published first in 1952, serialised into three issues of "Revue des Deux Mondes". It was subsequently reissued whole, twice, in 1955 and 1985. It is a pivotal work in Reunionnais literature, due to its descriptions of the lives of those enslaved on the island. It was also the first novel by a Réunionese writer to use modernism and fantasy. She also wrote an autobiography, which is as yet unpublished.