Lindsey Collen

Lindsey Collen (born 1948 in Mqanduli, Umtata, Transkei, South Africa) 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.

Works There is a Tide, Port Louis, Mauritius: Ledikasyon pu Travayer, 1990

Getting Rid of it, London: Granta Books, 1997. Mutiny, London: Bloomsbury, 2001. Boy, London: Bloomsbury, 2004. The Malaria Man & her Neighbours, Port Louis, Mauritius: Ledikasyon pu Travayer, 2010.

Chapbooks Komye fwa mo finn trap enn pikan ursen, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 1997. Natir imin: Mauritian Creole & English versions, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 2000.

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