Originally from Réunion Island, Estelle Coppolani is a poet, writer and playwright.
Her writing focuses on diasporic legacies, particularly from a women's perspective. She works on the oral and written literary resources of the Indian Ocean and on the phenomena of poetic recomposition engendered by situations of migration.
Going against a theory of dispossession, her writing defends the ideas of anti-colonial tradition and mythological abundance. In particular, she questions the specificities of asiodescendence in a French, hexagonal or ultramarine context.
Estelle's writing projects have been successively supported by the Fondation pour la mémoire de l'esclavage (2021), the Mondes Nouveaux programme of the French Ministry of Culture (2022) and the Patrimoine et Création programme of the Département de la Réunion (2022). The writer is also keen to engage in dialogue with artists who are also bearers of diasporic histories, and is multiplying projects at the crossroads of disciplines: theatre, design, video, exhibition curating, etc.
Alongside her creative work, Estelle is also on the editorial committee of the feminist publishing house Les Prouesses, which has published works by Mariama Bâ, Alexandra Kollontaï and Audre Lorde.