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
• The Rape of Sita. Feminist Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55861-393-5.
• Getting Rid of it, London: Granta Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-86207-079-0.
• Mutiny, London: Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7475-5265-9.
• Boy, London: Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7475-6387-7.
• The Malaria Man & her Neighbours, Port Louis, Mauritius: Ledikasyon pu Travayer, 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

• Yvonne Vera, ed. (1999). "Enigma". Opening spaces: an anthology of contemporary African women's writing. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-91010-5.
• Chris Brazier, ed. (2008). "Letters from Bambous". Letters from the Edge: 12 Women of the World Write Home. New Internationalist. ISBN 978-1-904456-97-1.

External links

• Wheelwright, Julie (27 July 2001). "Mutiny by Lindsey Collen". The Independent. Archived from the original on April 27, 2008. (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)
• Margaret Jean Hay, ed. (2000). "Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita". African novels in the classroom. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55587-878-8.
• “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"