Lindsey Collen

Lindsey Collen ( b. 1948 Mqunduli in Umtata, Transkei, South Africa) is a living Mauritian writer.

Awards

She became internationally known when she won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel from Africa for her novel Sita and the violence of 1994. This novel is banned in Mauritius. Her novel Boy was in 2005 in the same category awarded this prize.

Works

  • Sita and violence. Random House, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-13944-8.
  • The waves of Mauritius. Random House, Reinbek 1998, ISBN 3-499-22297-3.
  • Life Dance, Roman. Lamuv -Verlag, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-88977-535-7.
  • Engl. Mutiny, Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN 0-7475-5265-7.
  • Engl. Boy, Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 0-7475-6387- X.
  • Engl. The malaria Man ​​& other Neighbours. Ledikasyon pu travayer, St. Louis, Mauritius 2008, ISBN 978-99903-33-67-1.

Publications in Creole Morisyen

  • Komye fwa mo finn trap hen Pikan ursen. Ledikasyon pu travayer, St. Louis, Mauritius 1997, ISBN 99903-33-18-1.
  • Natir imin: Mauritian Creole & English versions. Ledikasyon pu travayer, St. Louis, Mauritius 2000, ISBN 99903-33-31-9.
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