Merle Collins - b. 1950
Thorunn LONSDALE: How did you start your writing career?Merle COLLINS: With my short story “The Walk” [from Rain Darling] in 1977 which I wrote after a workshop in Grenada. And this was the first piece I ever remember performing.T.L.: In that story, do you think the ending is amusing, when Queen re...
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| Language: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Thorunn LONSDALE: How did you start your writing career?Merle COLLINS: With my short story “The Walk” [from Rain Darling] in 1977 which I wrote after a workshop in Grenada. And this was the first piece I ever remember performing.T.L.: In that story, do you think the ending is amusing, when Queen realizes that for the money spent on food and drink on the long walk across the island they could have got the bus?M.C.: No, not really. It was more the different perception involved – that aspect of... |
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