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Titaua Peu is a Tahitian author born in 1975 in New Caledonia. After studying philosophy in Paris, she returned to Tahiti in 2002 and worked for a time in journalism and communication.
Her first novel Mutismes was published in 2003 by Haere Pö. At the age of 28, she became the youngest author in the Pacific. Wrongly perceived as autobiographical, it caused a sensation as soon as it was published because of its unacademic style and the subjects it tackles, between colonization, secular unspoken words and "respectful" silences still observed in Tahitian families.
In 2016, she published her second book Pina, published by "Au vent des îles", which won the Eugène Dabit Prize for the best populist novel one year later, a first for Polynesian literature.
An author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu shows a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Following in the footsteps of "writers from elsewhere", it is through her Tahitian voice that the realities of her own country are expressed. In spite of her refusal to assimilate and her unclassifiable side, she has definitively established herself as an author who cannot be ignored in the Polynesian intellectual and artistic landscape.