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Lindsey Collen
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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.
Quotes
It is a country invented by colonization. Perhaps this fact makes for extremes, in that there is not the moderating influence of a millennial history. Or maybe it is ‘cyclones’, those visitations that build and build and then wreak havoc, from time to time.
Country Profile: Mauritius; Lindsay Collen, 1 April 2013
Strangely, all four portrayals contain both truth and lies. Mauritius is like that. Contradictions and extremes"
Country Profile: Mauritius; Lindsay Collen, 1 April 2013
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Category:Novelists from Mauritius
Category:Living people
Category:Women authors from Mauritius
Category:1948 births
Category:Women born in the 1940s