I've always felt very much from a mixed culture - mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.