Merle Collins

Merle Collins was born in 1950 in Aruba to Grenadian parents, who returned to Grenada shortly after her birth. A graduate in English and Spanish of the University of the West Indies, then in Latin American studies at Georgetown, she worked for the revolutionary government of Grenada. Settled in England after the American intervention, she performed with the group African Dawn, which combined poetry and African music, and defended a doctoral thesis in political science at the University of London. She teaches comparative literature at the University of Maryland.

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• NovelAngelMerle Collins · 1987Literature