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
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TV Series
Girls On Top
4.8
The Young Ones
7.9
The Young Ones
7.9
Alexei Sayle's Stuff
6.5
Spender
7
2Point4 Children
7.2
Red Dwarf
8.1
Boom Boom... Out Go the Lights
6
The Comic Strip Presents...
7.4
Movies
Far from the Madding Crowd
6.88
Home Away from Home
0
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
7.5
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
7.75
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
5
Mona Lisa
6.883
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
6.3
Brighton Rock
5.7
Scrubbers
5.214
The House of Bernarda Alba
0
The Long Good Friday
7.133
Shadowlands
6.9
Utz
5.4
Ulysses
6
Britannia Hospital
6.3
Rat in the Skull
0
Didn't You Kill My Brother?
0