Chantal T. Spitz (b. 1954) is a Mā’ohi writer and activist. Her L’Île des rêves écrasés (1991; Island of Shattered Dreams, 2006) was the first novel by a Mā’ohi author to be published. One of the founders of Littéramā’ohi. Ramées de littérature polynésienne in 2002, she has published Hombo. Transcription d’une biographie (2002); numerous essays, including Pensées insolentes et inutiles (2006); a second novel, Elles, terre d’enfance. Roman à deux encres (2011); and two volumes of short stories, Cartes postales (2015) and et la mer pour demeure (2022), from which « j’eus un pays » is taken.
