Pauline Melville

(Guyana 1959). Her father is from Guyana, her mother is English. She lived and worked in Jamaica and French Guyana for some time. She now lives in London. In 1997, she was awarded the prestigious Whitbread First Novel Award for The Ventriloquist’s tale. A year later she was nominated for the Orange Prize, the literary prize for the best women’s novel. She also wrote two collections of short stories: Shape-Shifter (1991) and Migration of Ghosts (1998).
WN 2001