Déwé Gorodé is the leading Kanak writer of New Caledonia. In the 1970s, she became politically active in the incipient cause of independence, and with Nidoïsh Naisseline, formed with Elie Poigoune the Groupe 1878, in memory of the Kanak revolt of that year under chief Ataï. In 1976, she was one of the founders of the political party PALIKA (Parti de Libération Kanak), which evolved out of the Groupe 1878, and she has remained a leading member of this party ever since. She has published two volumes of short stories, Utê Mûrûnû (1994) and LAgenda (1996), and two books of poetry, Par les temps qui courent (1996) and Dire le vrai (1999). Since April 2001, she has also been Vice-President of the New Caledonian Government.

Author's Pandanus publications

• The Kanak Apple Season: Selected Short Fiction of Déwé Gorodé
• Sharing as Custom Provides: Selected Poems of Déwé Gorodé

Articles about the author in the Quarterly Bulletin:

• Contemporary Writing in the Pacific