Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. 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', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
Known For
26 titles
Red Dwarf
The Young Ones
The Young Ones
The Comic Strip Presents...
2Point4 Children
Girls On Top
Spender
The Long Good Friday
Shadowlands
Mona Lisa
Britannia Hospital
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Far from the Madding Crowd
Brighton Rock
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
The House of Bernarda Alba
Ulysses
Utz
Scrubbers
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Bottom Mindless Violence
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