Merle Collins
- January 11, 2024
- Poet
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Merle Collins Biography
| Birthday | Sep 29 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
Merle Collins is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on September 29, 1950 in Aruba, Grenada. Merle Collins, a prominent Grenadian poet, short story writer and illustrator was born 29 September 1950 in Aruba.
Karia Press published her first poetry collection, Because the Dawn Breaks in
- Collins was then a member African Dawn, which was an African performance group that combined poetry, mime and African music.
Her critical works include “Themes and Trends in Caribbean Writing Today” in From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women’s Writing in the Postmodern World (ed. Helen Carr, Pandora Press, 1989), and “To be Free is Very Sweet” in Slavery and Abolition (Vol. 15, issue 3, 1994, pp. 96–103).
Her collection of short stories, Rain Darling, was produced in 1990, and a second collection of poetry, Rotten Pomerack, in 1992. Her second novel, The Colour of Forgetting, was published in 1995. A review of her 2003 poetry collection, Lady in a Boat, states: “Ranging from poems reveling in the nation language of her island to poems that capture the beauty of its flora, Collins presents her island and people going about the business of living. They attempt to come to terms with the past and construct a future emerging out of the crucible of violence. Lady in a Boat is a poignant retelling of a period in history when, for a brief moment, Caribbean ascendancy seemed possible. Merle Collins shows how the death of this moment continues to haunt the Caribbean imagination.” Her most recent collection of stories, The Ladies Are Upstairs, was published in 2011.
Collins was a professor at the University of North London from 1984 to 1995. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. In 2018, she was named Distinguished Scholar Teacher 2018.
Merle Collins Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Poet |
| House | Living in own house. |
Merle Collins is one of the richest Poet from Grenada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Merle Collins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Collins’ parents hail from Grenada. They returned from Aruba shortly before she was born. Her primary education was at St George’s in Grenada. Later, she studied at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She earned degrees in English as well as Spanish in 1972. For two years, she taught Spanish and history in Grenada and then in St Lucia. She graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, DC in 1980 with a master’s level Latin American Studies degree. She received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in Government.
Collins was involved in the Grenadian Revolution. She also served as the government’s coordinator for research on Latin America, the Caribbean and Latin America. In 1983, she left Grenada to go to England.
In England, she began her first novel, Angel, which was published in 1987. Angel follows the lives of Grenadians as they struggled for independence, and is specifically about a young woman going through the political turbulence in Grenada at the time.
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