Lindsey Collen
Encyclopedia
Lindsey Collen is a Mauritian novelist, and activist.
She won the 1994 and 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
, Best Book, Africa.
Her work has appeared in the New Internationalist.
She is a member of Lalit de klas.
She married Ram Seegobin.
She lives in Mauritius
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Interviews
Others
She won the 1994 and 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website...
, Best Book, Africa.
Her work has appeared in the New Internationalist.
She is a member of Lalit de klas.
She married Ram Seegobin.
She lives in Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
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Works
- There is a tide, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, 1990
- Getting rid of it, Granta Books, 1997, ISBN 9781862070790
- Mutiny, Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN 9780747552659
- Boy, Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 9780747563877
- The malaria man & her neighbours, LPT, 2010, ISBN 9789990333671
Chapbooks
- Komye fwa mo finn trap enn pikan ursen, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 1997, ISBN 9789990333183
- Natir imin: Mauritian Creole & English versions, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 2000, ISBN 9789990333312
External links
Reviews- "The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen", litbrit, December 18, 2007
Interviews
- Lindsey Collen: “Emancipation is the freeing from patriarchy”, defimedia, Noor Adam Essack, 03/4/2011
Others
- “Lindsey Collen in Conversation”, Literature & Politics, University of Reunion
- "The Subversion of Class and Gender Roles in the Novels of Lindsey Collen (1948- ), Mauritian Social Activist and Writer"