Mary Rokonadravu hopes her victory in a regional heat will inspire other writers in the Pacific region to tell the stories of their homelands
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The Fijian winner of a regional heat for the Commonwealth short story prize says she hopes her victory will show other authors that it is “possible to dream, write, and speak from the islands”.
Mary Rokonadravu took the Pacific regional prize for the Commonwealth award for her story Famished Eels. She said she had been writing for 20 years, but had not been published and hadn’t entered a competition before. It was, she said, “extremely humbling to see my words finally out there and recognised”.
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