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
Getting Rid of it, London: Granta Books, 1997, . Mutiny, London: Bloomsbury, 2001, . Boy, London: Bloomsbury, 2004, . The Malaria Man & her Neighbours, Port Louis, Mauritius: Ledikasyon pu Travayer, 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"