![]() In 1990, with ‘Shape-Shifter’, her first collection of stories, she made her writing talent known and received the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best debut. In the eighties she played small roles in English television and film, for example alongside Armin Müller-Stahl in ‘Utz’, a filmed version of the novel by Bruce Chatwin with whom the author doesn’t only share a longing to be in distant places. She was also born here in the former British colony on the Atlantic Coast of South America, sometime during the fourties. Thus, only fragments are known from her biography: her mother was English and her father came from Guyana. ![]() ![]() Is Pauline Melville related to Herman Melville, the author of ‘Moby Dick’? If she was, she wouldn’t utter a word about it as her own life story remains a well guarded secret. ![]()
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