Lindsey Collen (born 1948 Mqanduli, Umtata, Transkei, South Africa) is a Mauritian novelist, and activist. She won the 1994 and 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book, Africa.
Her work has appeared in the New Internationalist. She is a member of Lalit de klas.
She married Ram Seegobin. She lives in Mauritius.
There is a tide, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, St. Louis, Mauritius, 1990The rape of Sita. Feminist Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-55861-393-5. Getting rid of it, Granta Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-86207-079-0.Mutiny, Bloomsbury, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7475-5265-9.Boy, Bloomsbury, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7475-6387-7.The malaria man & her neighbours, Ledikasyon pu Travayer, Saint Louis, Mauritius 2010, ISBN 978-99903-33-67-1.Komye fwa mo finn trap enn pikan ursen, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 1997, ISBN 978-99903-33-18-3.Natir imin: Mauritian Creole & English versions, Ledikasyon pu travayer, 2000, ISBN 978-99903-33-31-2.Yvonne Vera, ed. (1999). "Enigma". Opening spaces: an anthology of contemporary African women's writing. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-435-91010-5. Chris Brazier, ed. (2008). "Letters from Bambous". Letters from the Edge: 12 Women of the World Write Home. New Internationalist. ISBN 978-1-904456-97-1. 