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, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1990
Getting rid of it, Granta Books, London, 1997, . Mutiny, Bloomsbury, London, 2001, . Boy, Bloomsbury, London, 2004, . The malaria man & her neighbours, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, Port Louis, Mauritius 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"