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- Biography Pauline Melville was born in Guyana but currently lives in London. She won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Ventriloquist’s Tale, a novel about the taboo subject of incest. She is also an actress and has appeared in cinema and TV films.
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Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England.
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Biography. Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones'.
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Oct 22, 2016 · (Bloomsbury, 1998) enigmatic and extremely talented Guyanese writer, Pauline Melville. The book is one of my favourite pieces of literature from any Caribbean writer and it should be mandatory reading for anybody who claims to have an interest in the literature of Guyana.
A Guyanese author of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, Pauline Melville has emerged in the last few years as a leading Caribbean writer, and one of the most accomplished talents on the modern literary scene.
Nov 30, 2010 · Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series...
Pauline Melville is a British Guyanese writer who has worked at the Royal Court Theatre, the National Theatre and in television, film and cabaret. Her first novel, The Ventriloquist’s Tale, won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Mar 6, 2009 · Pauline Melville: Biography: Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones'.
