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, .

Anthologies

References

External links

• (Review)
• "The Rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen", litbrit, December 18, 2007 (Review)
• Lindsey Collen: “Emancipation is the freeing from patriarchy”, defimedia, Noor Adam Essack, 03/4/2011 (interview)
• “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"