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born 1948 Mauritius

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.

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Strangely, all four portrayals contain both truth and lies. Mauritius is like that. Contradictions and extremes"

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lindsey Collen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.