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Mary Rokonadravu is a story writer from Fiji. She was the first Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize twice in 2015 and 2022.
Career
Rokonadravu was the first Fijian to win the Pacific regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize 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 Suva's seven correctional facilities for four years and in 2008, she published shedding Silences, the Pacific'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 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story The Nightwatch in 2022.
Awards
| Year | Title | Work | Result | Presented by | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Commonwealth Short Story Prize | Famished Eels | Won | Commonwealth Foundation | |
| 2017 | Commonwealth Short Story Prize | The Big, Insignificant History of Peter Abraham Stanhope | Nominated | Commonwealth Foundation | |
| 2022 | Commonwealth Short Story Prize | The Nightwatch | Won | Commonwealth Foundation |
Books
- Famished Eels — A short story narrating inter-family and regional relations.
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