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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Pauline C Melville</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer, actress, comedian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> Guyanese</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>Shape-Shifter</i> (1990); <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ventriloquist%27s_Tale" title="The Ventriloquist's Tale">The Ventriloquist's Tale</a></i> (1997)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers' Prize</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Guardian_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Fiction Prize"><i>Guardian</i> Fiction Prize</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Whitbread First Novel Award</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Guyanese_literature#Guyana_Prizes_for_Literature" title="Guyanese literature">Guyana Prize for Literature</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pauline Melville</b> <a href="/wiki/FRSL" class="mw-redirect" title="FRSL">FRSL</a> (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and <a href="/wiki/Amerindian" class="mw-redirect" title="Amerindian">Amerindian</a> ancestry, who is currently based in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England. Among awards she has received for her writing – which encompasses short stories, novels and essays – are the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers' Prize</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Fiction Prize"><i>Guardian</i> Fiction Prize</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Whitbread First Novel Award</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Guyanese_literature#Guyana_Prizes_for_Literature" title="Guyanese literature">Guyana Prize for Literature</a>. <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> has said of Melville: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years."<sup id="cite_ref-BritishCouncil_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BritishCouncil-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_early_career">Background and early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melville was born in the former colony of <a href="/wiki/British_Guiana" title="British Guiana">British Guiana</a> (present-day Guyana), where she spent her pre-school years in the 1940s; her mother was English, and her father Guyanese<sup id="cite_ref-Jaggi_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of mixed race, "part South American Indian, African and Scottish".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The family moved to south London in the early 1950s, and after leaving school in the early 1960s, Melville worked at London's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Court_Theatre" title="Royal Court Theatre">Royal Court Theatre</a>, which would eventually lead to her becoming a professional actor.<sup id="cite_ref-Jaggi_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She first appeared in films in 1967, and in 1970–74 decided to further her education by doing a course in psychology and economics at <a href="/wiki/Brunel_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunel University">Brunel University</a>, then sought to combine art and politics by working with the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Stock_Theatre_Company" title="Joint Stock Theatre Company">Joint Stock Theatre Company</a> and the Scottish theatre company <a href="/wiki/7:84" title="7:84">7:84</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jaggi_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also concerned herself with post-independence politics in Guyana and elsewhere in the Caribbean region, teaching literacy in <a href="/wiki/Grenada" title="Grenada">Grenada</a> and working at the Jamaica School of Drama, while beginning to write short stories.<sup id="cite_ref-Jaggi_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a performer, Melville was most active during the 1980s, appearing in such films as <i><a href="/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(film)" title="Mona Lisa (film)">Mona Lisa</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Good_Friday" title="The Long Good Friday">The Long Good Friday</a></i>, along with television roles that include appearances in the sitcoms <i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)" title="The Young Ones (TV series)">The Young Ones</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Girls_on_Top_(British_TV_series)" title="Girls on Top (British TV series)">Girls on Top</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stand-up_comedy">Stand-up comedy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Stand-up comedy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While performing with rock cabaret group the <a href="/wiki/The_Sadista_Sisters" title="The Sadista Sisters">Sadista Sisters</a> in 1978, Melville started performing <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedy" title="Stand-up comedy">stand-up comedy</a> pieces in which she mocked <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippie</a> attitudes. She later recalled, "And I started – and it just took off. I mean there were sounds coming from the audience as if I'd burst some enormous bubble and at one point I thought somebody was sitting on some bagpipes, because…they were laughing so much."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She went on to join the group <a href="/wiki/Alternative_Cabaret" title="Alternative Cabaret">Alternative Cabaret</a> and become a leading figure in the early <a href="/wiki/Alternative_comedy" title="Alternative comedy">alternative comedy</a> movement, performing stand-up mainly in the character of Edie, a northern housewife trying desperately to prove herself as a left-wing radical. Her act was featured in early TV showcases for alternative comedy, notably <i>Boom Boom Out Go the Lights</i> and <i>The Entertainers</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1981, she performed with Alternative Cabaret in one of the first stand-up shows to appear at the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe" title="Edinburgh Festival Fringe">Edinburgh Festival Fringe</a>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Tony_Allen_(comedian)" title="Tony Allen (comedian)">Tony Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_de_la_Tour" title="Andy de la Tour">Andy de la Tour</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Barclay_(comedian)" title="Jim Barclay (comedian)">Jim Barclay</a> and the pianist Phil Nichol.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/Gadfly_Online" title="Gadfly Online">Gadfly Online</a></i>, "Much of Melville's writing is inspired by the people and events she observed while growing up in Guyana, a former British colony which didn't become independent until 1966. As a little girl and a teenager, Melville witnessed the complicated social problems of a nation locked in a desperate struggle to modernize and overcome its imperialist past. Today, an astounding number of cultures coexist in the region, in varying degrees of amicability, from European to Amerindian and African to East Indian, and the Guyanese have dealt with poverty, pollution and shortages of basic commodities, including electrical power."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melville herself said in a 2010 interview: "Being a writer is like being a window-cleaner in a house or a castle where the windows are obscured by dirt and grime. Writing is like cleaning the windows so that people can see a view of the world they have never seen before."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As well as contributing shorter writings to literary outlets including <i><a href="/wiki/Slightly_Foxed" title="Slightly Foxed">Slightly Foxed</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Electric_Literature" title="Electric Literature">Electric Literature</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and elsewhere, Melville has published three volumes of short stories and two novel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shape-Shifter_(1990)"><span id="Shape-Shifter_.281990.29"></span><i>Shape-Shifter</i> (1990)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Shape-Shifter (1990)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Her first book, the collection of short stories <i>Shape-Shifter</i>, was published in 1990 and won several awards, including the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers' Prize</a> for Best First Book (for Western Hemisphere region and Overall Best-Full Commonwealth), the <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Fiction Prize">Guardian Fiction Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_PEN_literary_awards#English_PEN" title="List of PEN literary awards">PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of the stories deal with post-colonial life in the Caribbean, particularly in her native Guyana, as well as of some stories being set in London. Many of her characters, most of them displaced people from former colonies struggling to come to terms with a new life in Britain, attempt to find an identity, to reconcile their past and to escape from the restlessness hinted at in the title. <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> described the collection as "notably sharp, funny, original...part Caribbean magic, part London grime, written in a slippery, chameleon language that is a frequent delight". Other critical acclaim included a review in <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i> of "this startling debut collection" that concluded: "Melville transforms the mundane yet never loses sight of social inequities or of the pleasures of laughter."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isobel Montgomery in a 2011 review of the paperback edition wrote: "It's not hard to see why this collection, first published in 1990, won both the Guardian and Commonwealth Writers' prize. The language is as full of surprises as Melville's characters. They are mostly from Guyana, a place 'where the ghosts walked openly and brazenly in the streets. The blue eyes of a Dutch planter looked enquiringly out of the black face of the local midwife.' ...Poverty and ill-luck abound, but the shape of this collection is essentially optimistic and energetic."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Ventriloquist's_Tale_(1997)"><span id="The_Ventriloquist.27s_Tale_.281997.29"></span><i>The Ventriloquist's Tale</i> (1997)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melville's first novel, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Ventriloquist%27s_Tale" title="The Ventriloquist's Tale">The Ventriloquist's Tale</a></i> (1997), won the <a href="/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Whitbread First Novel Award</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Guyanese_literature#Guyana_Prizes_for_Literature" title="Guyanese literature">Guyana Prize for Literature</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-BritishCouncil_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BritishCouncil-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was shortlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Orange Prize for Fiction</a>. In the book – which one reviewer characterised as "a unique look at the conflicts of ancient and modern ways"<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – Melville explores the nature of fiction and storytelling and writes about the impact of European colonisers on Guyanese Amerindians through the story of a brother and sister. </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/Publishers_Weekly" title="Publishers Weekly">Publishers Weekly</a></i>: "In Melville's ambitious and richly realized debut set in modern-day Guyana, religious, social and philosophical tensions beset all the characters. ...Melville's nuanced characterizations, fluid prose, apt imagery and beautifully understated dialogue augment her skill as a raconteur. An unsentimental but moving narrative about the pain of longing, the book is mystical yet fiercely rationalist, ideological while coolly above politics ... brilliant, witty and complicated."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jay_Parini" title="Jay Parini">Jay Parini</a> wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>: "In this magnificent novel, Melville shows herself to be a discerning observer and a gifted satirist, the kind who takes no prisoners."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <i><a href="/wiki/Guyana_Chronicle" title="Guyana Chronicle">Guyana Chronicle</a></i>, Subraj Singh stated: "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."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Migration_of_Ghosts_(1998)"><span id="The_Migration_of_Ghosts_.281998.29"></span><i>The Migration of Ghosts</i> (1998)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Migration of Ghosts (1998)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Her 1998 short-story collection, <i>The Migration of Ghosts</i>, is a book of complex layered tales of physical and emotional displacement. According to one reviewer: "A magnificent sense of pacing is the first of Melville's skills that impresses the reader of this mesmerizing collection. The second is her gift for voices ... she has an amazing range, from West Indians in London celebrating carnival, to the self-conscious, resentful Macusi Indian brought by her literal-minded British husband to a wedding in London, to the irritable Canadian wife whose husband has been sent to Guyana for two years to serve as unofficial liar for a mining corporation. Magic realism is the label most readers and critics will paste on Melville's work ... it is an appropriate but incomplete description. The dozen stories spill over with musical chaos and sly humor.... The magic in Melville's eccentric tales is neither good nor bad, white nor black, but the magic of the teeming pluralness and the many possibilities of life."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Kirkus_Reviews" title="Kirkus Reviews">Kirkus Reviews</a></i> summed it up as: "An irresistible book and a fine introduction, for those who need one, to one of the best new writers on the international scene."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eating_Air_(2009)"><span id="Eating_Air_.282009.29"></span><i>Eating Air</i> (2009)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Eating Air (2009)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melville's novel <i>Eating Air</i>, published in 2009, was called by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> "a virtuoso performance, playing with a gallimaufry of characters".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Caribbean_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="The Caribbean Review of Books">The Caribbean Review of Books</a></i>, the novel was described by <a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Spence" title="Vanessa Spence">Vanessa Spence</a> as "ambitious and sophisticated",<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Greenlaw" title="Lavinia Greenlaw">Lavinia Greenlaw</a> wrote in the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>: "The world of Pauline Melville’s fiction is one in which people slip in and out of place. It is full of shadows, transgressions and dark secrets. In her second novel, <i>Eating Air</i>, it is a remarkably wide world, flitting from south London to Italy, Brazil to Surinam, across the past 30 years. ... What makes this novel compelling is the way one person leads us to the next, and how we move out of the frame only to find ourselves back at the centre. ...Melville does not need to rely on rhetoric or charm. Her clean style and detached vision allow us to concentrate on what these people actually do as opposed to what they set out to do. This is a book about the difference between intention and action – and how we are acted upon far more than we know."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Master_of_Chaos_and_Other_Fables_(2021)"><span id="The_Master_of_Chaos_and_Other_Fables_.282021.29"></span><i>The Master of Chaos and Other Fables</i> (2021)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The Master of Chaos and Other Fables (2021)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Of her most recent book, <i>The Master of Chaos and Other Fables</i> (published in 2021 by Sandstone Press),<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Salman Rushdie was quoted as saying: "In this virtuoso performance, Pauline Melville shows us a world in upheaval, and reminds us that that's where we live."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah" title="Benjamin Zephaniah">Benjamin Zephaniah</a> writing in <i><a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i> magazine praised the collection, saying: "There is love, politics, compassion, magic, and humour."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Selecting "Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary Discuss Their Suicides" from the book as recommended reading, <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Taylor_(writer)" title="Brandon Taylor (writer)">Brandon Taylor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Electric_Literature" title="Electric Literature">Electric Lit</a> stated: "How deftly Pauline Melville scummons these characters.... It's a marvel of a story about stories that asks probing questions about agency and narrative and what it means to take one's story back for oneself. All told with charm and warm intelligence."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_literary_activities_and_involvement">Other literary activities and involvement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Other literary activities and involvement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1992, her essay "Beyond the Pale" was included in the anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_Africa" title="Daughters of Africa">Daughters of Africa</a></i>, edited by <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Busby" title="Margaret Busby">Margaret Busby</a>, as was the poem "Mixed", first published in <a href="/wiki/David_Dabydeen" title="David Dabydeen">David Dabydeen</a>'s 1998 <i>Rented Rooms</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jaggi_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2012, Melville delivered a lecture entitled "Guyanese Literature, Magic Realism and the South American Connection" in the <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Mittelholzer" title="Edgar Mittelholzer">Edgar Mittelholzer</a> Memorial Lecture series at the <a href="/wiki/Umana_Yana" title="Umana Yana">Umana Yana</a> in <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Guyana" title="Georgetown, Guyana">Georgetown</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melville's work has also been broadcast on radio, including her story "Is This Platform Four Madam? Is it?", which was read by <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Findlay" title="Deborah Findlay">Deborah Findlay</a> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melville was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> (RSL) in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Writers%27_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth Writers' Prize">Commonwealth Writers' Prize</a> (Regional and Overall Winner for Best First Book) for <i>Shape-Shifter</i></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Guardian_Fiction_Prize" title="Guardian Fiction Prize">Guardian Fiction Prize</a> for <i>Shape-Shifter</i></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/List_of_PEN_literary_awards" title="List of PEN literary awards">PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award</a> for <i>Shape-Shifter</i></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Whitbread First Novel Award</a> for <i>The Ventriloquist's Tale</i></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Prize_for_Fiction" title="Women's Prize for Fiction">Orange Prize for Fiction</a> (shortlist) for <i>The Ventriloquist's Tale</i></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Guyanese_literature#Guyana_Prizes_for_Literature" title="Guyanese literature">Guyana Prize for Literature</a> for <i>The Ventriloquist's Tale</i></li> <li>2018: Elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short-story_collections">Short-story collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Short-story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Shape-Shifter</i>, London: <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Press">Women's Press</a>, 1990, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7043-5051-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7043-5051-9">978-0-7043-5051-9</a>; Pantheon Books, 1991, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-679-40438-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-679-40438-5">978-0-679-40438-5</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=czl7xYZ53zQC&q=pauline+melville"><i>The Migration of Ghosts</i></a>. London: Bloomsbury. 1998. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7475-3675-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7475-3675-8"><bdi>978-0-7475-3675-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Migration+of+Ghosts&rft.pub=London%3A+Bloomsbury&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-7475-3675-8&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dczl7xYZ53zQC%26q%3Dpauline%2Bmelville&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APauline+Melville" class="Z3988"></span>; Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2000, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58234-074-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58234-074-6">978-1-58234-074-6</a></li> <li><i>The Master of Chaos and Other Fables</i>, Sandstone Press, 2021, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781913207540" title="Special:BookSources/9781913207540">9781913207540</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ventriloquist%27s_Tale" title="The Ventriloquist's Tale">The Ventriloquist's Tale</a></i>, London: <a href="/wiki/Bloomsbury_Publishing" title="Bloomsbury Publishing">Bloomsbury Publishing</a>, 1997, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7475-3150-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7475-3150-0">978-0-7475-3150-0</a>; Bloomsbury USA, 1999, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58234-026-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58234-026-5">978-1-58234-026-5</a></li> <li><i>Eating Air</i> (novel), London: Telegram, 2009, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84659-076-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84659-076-4">978-1-84659-076-4</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films">Films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Ulysses_(1967_film)" title="Ulysses (1967 film)">Ulysses</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd_(1967_film)" title="Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)">Far from the Madding Crowd</a></i> (1967), as Mrs. Tall</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Good_Friday" title="The Long Good Friday">The Long Good Friday</a></i> (1980), as Dora</li> <li><i>Boom Boom, Out Go the Lights</i> (1981), as Herself</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Britannia_Hospital" title="Britannia Hospital">Britannia Hospital</a></i> (1982), as Clarissa</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scrubbers" title="Scrubbers">Scrubbers</a></i> (1983), as Crow</li> <li><i>White City</i> (1985), as Woman in dole office</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(film)" title="Mona Lisa (film)">Mona Lisa</a></i> (1986), as Dawn</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/How_to_Get_Ahead_in_Advertising" title="How to Get Ahead in Advertising">How to Get Ahead in Advertising</a></i> (1989), as Mrs. Wailace</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_House_of_Bernarda_Alba" title="The House of Bernarda Alba">The House of Bernarda Alba</a></i> (1991)(TV), as Prudencia</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Utz_(film)" title="Utz (film)">Utz</a></i> (1992), as Curator</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shadowlands_(1993_film)" title="Shadowlands (1993 film)">Shadowlands</a></i> (1993), as a Committee Chairwoman</li> <li><i>Home Away From Home</i> (1994), as Neighbour</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Brighton_Rock_(2010_film)" title="Brighton Rock (2010 film)">Brighton Rock</a></i> (2010), as Mother Superior</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)" title="The Young Ones (TV series)">The Young Ones</a></i> (1982/84, <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a>), as Woman on Bus (in episode "Demolition") and Vyvyan's mum (in episodes "Boring" and "Sick"), plus witch (in “Sick”)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girls_on_Top_(British_TV_series)" title="Girls on Top (British TV series)">Girls on Top</a></i> (1985, <a href="/wiki/ITV_(TV_network)" title="ITV (TV network)">ITV</a>), playing Yvonne (three episodes)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Happy_Families_(1985_TV_series)" title="Happy Families (1985 TV series)">Happy Families</a></i> (1985), playing a Warder</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackadder%27s_Christmas_Carol" title="Blackadder's Christmas Carol">Blackadder's Christmas Carol</a></i> (1988), as Mrs. Scratchit</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comic_Strip_Presents" class="mw-redirect" title="The Comic Strip Presents">The Comic Strip Presents</a></i> (1988), as Pauline Sneak in episode "Didn't You Kill My Brother?", which she also co-wrote</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alexei_Sayle%27s_Stuff" title="Alexei Sayle's Stuff">Alexei Sayle's Stuff</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Dwarf" title="Red Dwarf">Red Dwarf</a></i> (1989), as Barmaid in "<a href="/wiki/Backwards_(Red_Dwarf_episode)" class="mw-redirect" title="Backwards (Red Dwarf episode)">Backwards</a>" (uncredited)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Alas_Smith_and_Jones" title="Alas Smith and Jones">Alas Smith and Jones</a></i> (1990) (two episodes)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2_Point_4_Children" class="mw-redirect" title="2 Point 4 Children">2 Point 4 Children</a></i> (1992), playing Babs in episode "Hormones"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles" title="The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles">The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles</a></i> (1992), as Maisie Kemp in episode "London, May 1916"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Desmond%27s" title="Desmond's">Desmond's</a></i> (1992), as Mrs. Martin in episode "Too Red Eye"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Spender" title="Spender">Spender</a></i> (1993), as Judge in episode "The More Things Change"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghostwriter_(1992_TV_series)" title="Ghostwriter (1992 TV series)">Ghostwriter</a></i> (1994), as Wise Rita (one episode)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bill" title="The Bill">The Bill</a></i> (1997), as Mrs Austin in "No Trace", Season 13, Episode 136</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-BritishCouncil-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BritishCouncil_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BritishCouncil_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/pauline-melville">"Pauline Melville"</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Council" title="British Council">British Council</a> – Literature. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140301235224/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/pauline-melville">Archived</a> 1 March 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jaggi-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Jaggi_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jaggi_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jaggi_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jaggi_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Jaggi_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJaggi2010" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Maya_Jaggi" title="Maya Jaggi">Jaggi, Maya</a> (2 January 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/02/pauline-melville-interview">"Pauline Melville profile"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Pauline+Melville+profile&rft.date=2010-01-02&rft.aulast=Jaggi&rft.aufirst=Maya&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2010%2Fjan%2F02%2Fpauline-melville-interview&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APauline+Melville" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cloyette Harris-Stoute, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://guyanesegirlsrock.com/pauline-melville-first-guyanese-to-win-commonwealth-writers-best-overall-prize/">"Pauline Melville: First Guyanese to win the Commonwealth Writers’ (Best Overall) Prize"</a>, Guyanese Girls, 11 November 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/pauline_melville/">"Pauline Melville"</a>. <i>British Comedy Guide</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Narrative Agency in Pauline Melville's <i>The Ventriloquist's Tale</i>"</a>, Academia.edu. 2000.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Pyne-Timothy" title="Helen Pyne-Timothy">Helen Pyne-Timothy</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41715086?uid=3738032&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104512158591">"Reading the Signs in Pauline Melville's 'Erzulie'"</a>, <i>Journal of Haitian Studies</i>, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 136–147.</li> <li>Liliana Sikorska, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://beckassets.blob.core.windows.net/product/preamble/11672018/9783631607862_intro_002.pdf">"Pauline Melville’s marvels of reality"</a>, in <i>Eyes Deep with Unfathomable Stories: The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and in the Past</i>. Liliana Sikorska (ed.), <i>Studies in Literature in English</i>, Vol. 4. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 1988.</li> <li>Kathleen Williams Renk, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989408101654">"'Magic that Battles Death': Pauline Melville's <i>Marvellous Realism</i>"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Journal_of_Commonwealth_Literature" title="The Journal of Commonwealth Literature">The Journal of Commonwealth Literature</a></i>, Volume 44, issue 1 (1 March 2009), pp. 101–115.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_Melville&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578501/">Pauline Melville</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZCUycgEMdE">"Pauline Melville - stand-up from comedy showcase Stomping On The Cat, Channel 4, 1984"</a>, via <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2002/pauline-melville">Pauline Melville</a>, internationales literaturfestival Berlin</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/guyana-review/11/30/the-literary-talents-of-pauline-melville/">"The literary talents of Pauline Melville"</a>, <i>Stabroek News</i>, 30 November 2010</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyd_Tonkin" title="Boyd Tonkin">Boyd Tonkin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/one-minute-with-pauline-melville-1781179.html">"One Minute With: Pauline Melville"</a>, <i>The Independent</i>, 4 September 2009.</li> <li>Anna Metcalfe, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/551bc8cc-8ae8-11df-bead-00144feab49a.html#axzz2HKXvlm6t">"Small Talk: Pauline Melville"</a> (interview), <i>Financial Times</i>, 12 July 2010.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hCtJ7cGHiY">"Pauline Melville - Frank Collymore Lit. 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