Mary Rokonadravu is a story writer from

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. She was the first Fijian to win the Pacific regional

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twice in 2015 and 2022.

Career

Rokonadravu was the first Fijian to win the Pacific regional

for her short story "''Famished Eels''" in 2015. She was also shortlisted for the same award in 2017. She has directed a prison writing programme at

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's seven correctional facilities for four years and in 2008, she published ''shedding Silences'', the

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's first anthology of prison writing. In 2017, Rokonadravu launched a writing competition under the banner of the Fiji Media Watch Group. Rokonadravu was again awarded with the

for her story ''The Nightwatch'' in 2022.

Awards

Books

* ''Famished Eels'' — A short story narrating inter-family and regional relations. * ''Sepia''

References

Living people Fijian writers Fijian women writers 21st-century Fijian writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Fiji-bio-stub

Career

Awards

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