Background
His father was a Ukrainian, mother - reunion Creole.
His father was a Ukrainian, mother - reunion Creole.
Writes оn French. From the youth participated in the liberation struggle, experienced persecution from the French colonial administration: he was expelled from the island for 12 years. The author of several books of poetry. Boris Gamaleya published poems on Ukrainian language (translation Victor Koptilov) in the magazine "The Universe" (1981) and the anthology "The Poetry of Africa" (1983).
Biography of Boris Gamaleya (fr).
He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Reunion.