Vinod Busjeet

Vinod Busjeet grew up in Mauritius, came to the US to study in 1971 and lives in Washington DC. Silent Winds, Dry Seas (2021) is his debut novel. The book tells in prose and poetry the coming-of-age story of Vishnu, a Mauritian boy who has the opportunity to go to college abroad on a scholarship. Set primarily in the 1950s and 1960s, Silent Winds, Dry Seas also traces the tumultuous path to independence for the highly diverse and multiracial Mauritius, which was a British colony until 1968. Busjeet has long worked in the world of economic development, international finance and diplomacy with positions at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, among others. Before that, he worked in Mauritius as a secondary school teacher.