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.
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[edit]- 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
