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List Of Guyanese Writers
This is a list of notable Guyanese writers. A * Michael Abbensetts (1938–2016) * John Agard (b. 1949) * Arif Ali (b. 1935) * Andaiye (1942–2019) B * Harold Bascom * Dale Bisnauth (1936–2013) * E. R. Braithwaite (1912–2016) C * N. E. Cameron (1903–1983) * Jan Carew (1920–2012) * Martin Carter (1927–1997) * Brian Chan * Bertram Charles (1937–1994) D * Fred D'Aguiar (b. 1960) * Cyril Dabydeen (b. 1945) * David Dabydeen (b. 1955) * Mahadai Das (b. 1954) * O. R. Dathorne (1934–2007) * David de Caires (1937–2008) * Raywat DeonandanPetamber Persaud"Winners at a glance" Preserving our literary Heritage , Literary Corner, ''Guyana Chronicle'', 29 July 2007, p. IV. * Brenda DoHarris (b. 1946) G * Michael Gilkes (1933–2020) * Beryl Gilroy (1924–2001) * David A. Granger (b. 1945) * Cy Grant (1919–2010) * Stanley Greaves (b. 1935) H * Wilson Harris (1921–2018) * Roy Heath (1926–2008) * Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson (1934–1993) J * Janet Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Abbensetts
Michael John Abbensetts (8 June 1938 – 24 November 2016)Michelle Yaa Asantewa Way Wive Wordz, 25 November 2016. was a Guyana-born British writer who settled in England in the 1960s. He had been described as "the best Black playwright to emerge from his generation, and as having given "Caribbeans a real voice in Britain". He was the first black British playwright commissioned to write a television drama series, ''Empire Road'', which the BBC aired from 1978 to 1979.Michael Coveney"Michael Abbensetts obituary" ''The Guardian'', 20 November 2016. Early years Born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), the son of Neville John (a doctor) and Elaine Abbensetts, Michael Abbensetts attended Queen's College from 1952 to 1956, then Stanstead College, Quebec, Canada, and Sir George Williams University, in Montreal (1960–61), before moving to England "around 1963".Michelle Stoby, "Black British Drama After ''Empire Road'': An interview with Michael Abbensetts", ''Wasafiri'', Issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Gilkes (writer)
Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020)"Obituary – Michael Gilkes" '''', 19 April 2020. (Compiled by Al Creighton, Vanda Radzik, Marina Taitt and Jocelyn Dow.)"Guyanese playwright Michael Gilkes dies from COVID-19 complications" ''Guyana Chronicle'', 15 April 2020. was a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kampta Karran
Kampta Karran (died June 5, 2013) was a Guyanese sociologist and author. Karran had a distinguished record in the service of local publishing in Guyana, where he edited and published the journal ''Offerings'' and was active in working towards a resolution to Guyana's ethnic conflicts. He lectured at the University of Birmingham from 1999 to 2002, before joining the University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ... Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations as the Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow in 2002. He also lectured at the University of Guyana. Karran died at Skeldon Hospital in Guyana on June 5, 2013. He was survived by his wife and four children. Works * ''Race and Ethnicity in Guyana: An Introductory Reader'' * ''No Land, No Mother -'' Editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxmi Kallicharan
Latchmie Kumarie Vainmati Kallicharran (5 June 1951 – 20 January 2002) was a Guyanese writer. She was one of the pioneers of Indo-Guyanese cultural awareness. She also organized and presented cultural programmes, the first being Lalla-Rookh. She staged her first show in the early 1970s when there was considerable resistance within the ruling PNC to regard Indo-Guyanese culture as being truly Guyanese. She organized dance and music shows, working to incorporate Chutney music into Mashramani, as well as the organization of an important photographic exhibition of Indo-Guyanese history and artifacts. Kallicharan grew up in Berbice, Guyana and attended the Berbice Educational Institute before attending University of Guyana The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, is Guyana's national higher education institution. It was established in April 1963 with the following Mission: "To discover, generate, disseminate, and apply knowledge of the highest standard for ..., where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruel Johnson
Ruel Johnson is a Guyanese author. Johnson won the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for best first fiction manuscript for a collection of short stories entitled ''Ariadne and Other Stories'', which he self-published the following year with assistance from COURTS and GuyEnterprise. Johnson, then 22, was the youngest person ever to win the prize. He also won the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature for submitting the best book of fiction. In 2016 he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, IA, and was the first Guyanese to participate in the programme. He is the Cultural Policy Advisor through the Ministry of Education, and since 2014 has been working to establish a national cultural policy. A former President's College (Golden Grove, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana, South America) student who hails from Tucville Terrace, Greater Georgetown, Johnson is the eldest of five and has one child. Ruel Johnson was recently accused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiling Jin
Meiling Jin (born 1963) is a Guyanese author, radio broadcaster, playwright, and filmmaker who currently lives in London, England. Biography In 1963, Meiling Jin was born in Guyana to parents of Chinese ancestry. She has one sibling, a twin sister. Despite her parents' background, Jin did not visit China for the first time until 1981. For the first eight years of her life, she lived and was raised in Guyana. In June 1964, Jin's family fled the country due to the unstable politics and moved to London, England. Jin's family left Guyana two years before it achieved independence within the Commonwealth on 26 May 1966. Her father had travelled first, and the rest of her family followed. It was in London that Jin found her love for literature. Meiling Jin writes of the initial distress in England that she and her sister faced as the only Chinese girls in their school. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George James (writer)
George Granville Monah James (November 9, 1893 – June 30, 1956) was a Guyanese-American historian and author, known for his 1954 book ''Stolen Legacy'', which argues that Greek philosophy and religion originated in ancient Egypt. Biography James was born in Georgetown, Guyana. His parents were Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James. James earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Durham University in England and gained his doctorate at Columbia University in New York. He was Professor of Logic and Greek at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, before working at Arkansas AM&N College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. James died two years after publishing ''Stolen Legacy'' in 1954.Gwinyai Muzorewa, "Stolen Legacy"; in Molefi Kete Asante & Ama Mazama (eds), ''Encyclopedia of Black Studies''; Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2005; p440 James was a freemason and was associated with Prince Hall Freemasonry. ''Stolen Legacy'' James was the author of the widely circulated ''Stolen Legacy: The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Jagan
Janet Rosenberg Jagan (October 20, 1920 – March 28, 2009) was a U.S.-born Guyanese politician who served as the President of Guyana, serving from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999. She was the first female President of Guyana. She previously served as the first female Prime Minister of Guyana from March 17, 1997, to December 19, 1997. The wife of Cheddi Jagan, whom she succeeded as president, she was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence, in 1993, and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Women's Rights in 1998.Hinds, David. "Janet Jagan and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guyana" in Cynthia Barrow-Giles, ed. ''Women in Caribbean Politics'' Kingston, Miami: Ian Randle, 2011. Skard, Torild. "Janet Jagan", ''Women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide'', Bristol: Policy Press, 2014. Early years and marriage Jagan was born Janet Rosenberg to middle-class Jewish parents on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson
Slade Hopkinson (1934 – 1993) was a Guyana-born poet, playwright, actor and teacher. Early life Slade Hopkinson was born into a middle-class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana. His father was a barrister-at-law, and his mother a nurse. A few years after the death of his father, his mother took Slade and his sister to live in Barbados where he attended Harrison College. In 1952, he went to the University College of the West Indies on a scholarship, coinciding with Derek Walcott and Mervyn Morris as students. Slade Hopkinson was active in university theatre. He directed ''Oedipus'' and ''King Lear''. He obtained his BA in 1953 and a Dip. Ed. in 1956. Career He worked in Jamaica as a teacher, weekly newspaper editor, and a government information officer. He married (Freda) and had two children, Nalo (a novelist) and Keita (a painter and the founder of TorontoJazzBu. In 1962 the family went to live in Trinidad and Slade Hopkinson joined Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Heath
Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades, working as a schoolteacher as well as writing. His 1978 novel '' The Murderer'' won the ''Guardian'' Fiction Prize. He went on to become more noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels, consisting of ''From the Heat of the Day'' (1979), ''One Generation'' (1980), and ''Genetha'' (1981), which were also published in an omnibus volume as ''The Armstrong Trilogy'', 1994. Heath said that his writing was "intended to be a dramatic chronicle of twentieth-century Guyana". His work has been described as "marked by comprehensive social observation, penetrating psychological analysis, and vigorous, picaresque action." Biography Roy Heath was born and grew up in Georgetown in what was then British Guiana, and "had African, Indian, European and Amerindian blood running through his veins". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Harris
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but subsequently became a novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English. Biography Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in British Guiana, where his father worked at an insurance company. His parents were Theodore Wilson Harris and Millicent Josephine Glasford Harris. After studying at Queen's College in the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, he became a government surveyor, before taking up a career as lecturer and writer. The knowledge of the savannas and rain forests he gained during his twenty years as a land surveyor formed the setting for many of his books, with the Guyanese landscape dominating his fiction. The experience of the Guyanese interior also shaped his approach to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Greaves
Stanley Greaves (born 1934)Rupert Roopnarine"Master Maker: Stanley Greaves" ''Caribbean Beat'', Issue 72 (March/April 2005). is a Guyanese painter and writer who is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists. Writing in 1995 at the time of a retrospective exhibition to celebrate Greaves's 60th birthday, Rupert Roopnarine stated: "It may be that no major Caribbean artist of our time has been more fecund and versatile than Stanley Greaves of Guyana." Greaves himself has said of his own creativity: I still don't talk about myself as making art! Other people do that. I am a maker of things. In the early days, I found empty matchboxes, cigarette boxes, bits of string, wire, empty boot-polish tins, whatever, and made things. Drawing was just another activity, and it still is. My favorite medium is still wood, of course. My hitherto secret preoccupation with writing poems, which has now come to light, is another form of making. Recently at the University of Birmingham, where I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |