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Guyanese Women Writers
This is a list of women writers of Guyana. A-M * Andaiye (1942–2019) * Mahadai Das (b. 1954) * Brenda DoHarris (b. 1946) * Beryl Gilroy (1924–2001) * Janet Jagan (1920–2009) * Meiling Jin (b. 1956) * Laxmi Kallicharan (1951–2002) * Oonya Kempadoo (b. 1966) * Karen King-Aribisala (living) * Sharon Maas (b. 1951) * Pauline Melville (b. 1948) N-Z * Grace Nichols (b. 1950) * Elly Niland (b. 1954) * C. M. Rubin (living) * Ryhaan Shah (living) * Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979) * Narmala Shewcharan (living) * Jan Shinebourne (b. 1947) * Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979) * Maya Tiwari Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ... (b. 1952) {{Lists of women writers by nationality , state=autocollapse * Guyanese women writers Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andaiye
Andaiye, born Sandra Williams (11 September 1942 – 31 May 2019),Joanne Collins-Gonsalves"Andaiye (1942– )" in Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. (eds), ''Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2016.Denis Chabrol"Women’s rights activist and former WPA executive member, Andaiye, dies" ''Demerara Waves'', 31 May 2019. was a Guyanese social, political, and gender rights activist, who has been described as "a transformative figure in the region's political struggle, particularly in the late 1970s, '80s and '90s".Margaret Busby (ed.)"Andaiye" ''New Daughters of Africa'', London: Myriad Editions, 2019, p. 45. She was an early member of the executive of the Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana, alongside Walter Rodney, among others, and served as Coordinator and Editor, International Secretary and Women's Secretary, until 2000. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Nichols
Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, ''I is a Long-Memoried Woman'' (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Early years and education Grace Nichols FRSL was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and lived in a small village on the country's coast until her family moved to the city when she was eight years old. She took a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana, and subsequently worked as a teacher (1967–70), as a journalist and in government information services, Margaret Busby (ed.), '' Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present'', London: Vintage, 1993, p. 796. before she immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1977. Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guyanese Writers
Guyanese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Guyana * A person from Guyana, or of Guyanese descent. For information about the Guyanese people, see: ** Guyanese people ** Demographics of Guyana ** Culture of Guyana * Guyanese cuisine * Guyanese Creole See also *Guianese French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label= French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. It ..., of from, or related to the country of French Guiana {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guyanese Women Writers
This is a list of women writers of Guyana. A-M * Andaiye (1942–2019) * Mahadai Das (b. 1954) * Brenda DoHarris (b. 1946) * Beryl Gilroy (1924–2001) * Janet Jagan (1920–2009) * Meiling Jin (b. 1956) * Laxmi Kallicharan (1951–2002) * Oonya Kempadoo (b. 1966) * Karen King-Aribisala (living) * Sharon Maas (b. 1951) * Pauline Melville (b. 1948) N-Z * Grace Nichols (b. 1950) * Elly Niland (b. 1954) * C. M. Rubin (living) * Ryhaan Shah (living) * Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979) * Narmala Shewcharan (living) * Jan Shinebourne (b. 1947) * Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979) * Maya Tiwari Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ... (b. 1952) {{Lists of women writers by nationality , state=autocollapse * Guyanese women writers Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Tiwari
Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a population native to the old Wej province in Ethiopia Places * Maya (river), a river in Yakutia, Russia * Maya (Uda), a river in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia * Maya, Uganda, a town * Maya, Western Australia, a town * Maya Karimata, an island in West Borneo, Indonesia * Maya Mountains, a mountain range in Guatemala and Belize ** Maya Biosphere Reserve, a nature reservation in Guatemala * Mount Maya, a mountain in Kobe, Japan ** Maya Station, a railway station in Kobe, Japan * La Maya (mountain), an alp in Switzerland * Al Maya or Maya, a town in Libya Religion and mythology * Maya religion, the religious practices of the Maya peoples of parts of Mexico and Central America ** Maya mythology, the myths and legends of the Maya civilization * Maya (religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Shinebourne
Jan Lowe Shinebourne (born 1947), also published as Janice Shinebourne, is a Guyanese novelist who now lives in England. In a unique position to be able to provide an insight into multicultural Caribbean culture, Shinebourne's is a rare and distinctive voice : She grew up on a colonial sugar plantation and was deeply affected by the dramatic changes her country went through in its transition from a colony to independence. She wrote her early novels to record this experience. Background Born in Canje, a plantation village within Berbice, Guyana, Shinebourne was educated at Berbice High School and started a BA degree at the University of Guyana but did not complete it there. In 1970, she married John Shinebourne and moved to London where she completed her degree and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, then taught in several London colleges, then did an MA in English at the University of London and became involved in civil rights politics. In 2006, she moved from London to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narmala Shewcharan
Narmala Shewcharan is a Guyanese-born novelist and anthropologist who lives in the UK. She holds an MA and a PhD from Brunel University. She also trained as a journalist at the University of Guyana. She was awarded a writing fellowship by the Ragdale Foundation in Chicago and commenced work during this residency on her novel, ''Tomorrow is Another Day''. ''Tomorrow is Another Day'' was published in 1994 and shortlisted in that year for the Guyana Prize for Literature. The book fictionalises some of her encounters and perceptions during the turbulent 1980s period of the Burnham presidency, focusing on ordinary people's entanglement in the politics of the times and their efforts to assert their agency. She has written two other novels. She has also written a number of plays, including ''Janhjat: Bola Ram and the Long Story'', which was adapted for television and shown on MBC Channel 93 in Guyana, ''On the Wings of a Woodant'' and ''Going Berbice''. She began writing poetry and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajkumari Singh
Rajkumari Singh (13 October 1923 – 1979) was an Indo-Caribbean, Guyanese writer, political activist, educator, and cultural leader. She is the author of the essay "I am a Coolie". Singh was the first published Indian woman from the Caribbean and although she never used the term "feminist," her life's work contributed to feminist literature of the Caribbean, in addition to her advancement of a national Guyanese culture of integration while still upholding Indian culture within this new construct. Poetry Her iconic poem, "Per Ajie," epitomizes the journey of Indians to the Caribbean, through the eyes of an Indo-Caribbean visualizing her paternal great-grandmother making the voyage on one of the historic migratory ships headed for Guyana. It was written in a Shakespearean style of language, in order to elevate the topic of Indian indentureship into circles of serious literary critique. Another piece, "I See Bent Figures," describes the struggles and achievements of indentured Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryhaan Shah
Ryhaan Shah is an Indo-Guyanese writer born in Berbice, Guyana. She is active in Guyanese public life as the President of the Guyanese Indian Heritage Association (GIHA). In November 2009, Shah was chosen one of The 500 Most Influential Muslims as a novelist, despite criticism for race baiting in Guyana's 2015 election. The GIHA aims to promote Indo-Guyanese culture. The organization competes with the Indian Arrival Committee, which is aligned with the People's Progressive Party. GIHA seeks to maintain a distinct Indian identity, and is against assimilation or creolization into the greater Afro-Guyanese community. She has described Guyana as a stop-over point for Indians, seeking better, safer places abroad. Shah lived outside of Guyana from 1976 to 1997 in the US, Britain and Grand Cayman. Books Shah's first novel, ''A Silent Life'' (Peepal Tree, 2005), won the 2007 Guyana Prize for Literature First Book Award. combines strong social themes in the context of memories of 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elly Niland
Elly Niland (born 1954) is a Guyanese-born poet, playwright and teacher. Her first collection of poetry was nominated for Best First Book of Poetry Paquet, Sandra Pouchet"Guyana Prize for Literature: Judges Report" ''Stabroek News'', 26 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2010. and was runner up for the Guyana Prize for Literature 2004. Her second collection ''Cornerstones'' won the Guyana Prize for Literature 2006."Guyana Prize Winners Announced" '''', 24 August 2007. Retrieved 26 January 2010.Creighton, Al [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Melville
Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English/Guyanese-born writer and former actor of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in London, England. Among awards she has received for her writing – which encompasses short stories, novels and essays – are the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the ''Guardian'' Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Salman Rushdie has said: "I believe her to be one of the few genuinely original writers to emerge in recent years." Background and early career Melville was born in the former colony of British Guiana (present-day Guyana), where she spent her pre-school years in the 1940s; her mother was English, and her father Guyanese of mixed race, "part South American Indian, African and Scottish". The family moved to south London in the early 1950s, and after leaving school in the early 1960s, Melville worked at London's Royal Court Theatre, which would eventually lead to her bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahadai Das
Mahadai Das was a Guyanese poet. She was born in Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Guyana, in 1954. She wrote poetry from her early school days at The Bishops' High School, Georgetown. She did her first degree at the University of Guyana and received her B.A. in philosophy at Columbia University, New York, and then began a doctoral programme in Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Das became very ill and was never able to complete the programme. Background She was a dancer, actress, teacher and beauty queen (Ms. Dewali, 1971), served as a volunteer member of the Guyana National Service around 1976 and was part of the Messenger Group promoting ‘Coolie’ art forms at a time when Indo-Guyanese culture was virtually excluded from national life. She was one of the first Indo-Caribbean Indo-Caribbeans or Indian-Caribbeans are Indian people in the Caribbean who are descendants of the Jahaji Indian indentured laborers brought by the British, Dutch, and French during the colonial e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |