Lindsey Collen’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Novelist
Is Writer
Novelist
From South Africa
Type Literature
Gender female
Birth

1 January 1948, Mqanduli, King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, OR Tambo District Municipality, Eastern Cape

Age 73 years

Lindsey Collen (born 1948 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, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, St. Louis, Mauritius, 1990
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  • Getting rid of it, Granta Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-86207-079-0.
  • Mutiny, Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7475-5265-9.
  • Boy, Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7475-6387-7.
  • The malaria man & her neighbours, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, Saint Louis, Mauritius 2010, ISBN 978-99903-33-67-1.

Chapbooks

  • Komye fwa mo finn trap enn pikan ursen, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 1997, ISBN 978-99903-33-18-3.
  • Natir imin: Mauritian Creole & English versions, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 2000, ISBN 978-99903-33-31-2.

Anthologies

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