This is a list of women writers of Guyana.
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Andaiye (1942–2019)
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Mahadai Das (b. 1954)
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Brenda DoHarris Brenda Chester DoHarris (born 9 June 1946) is a writer and academic from Guyana.
Career
Doharris was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and attended Bishops' High School on scholarship. Her education and experience growing up in rural Kitty were ...
(b. 1946)
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Beryl Gilroy (1924–2001)
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Janet Jagan (1920–2009)
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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 sis ...
(b. 1956)
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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. Sh ...
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Oonya Kempadoo
Oonya Kempadoo (born 1966) is a novelist who was born in the United Kingdom of Guyana, Guyanese parentage, her father being the writer Peter Kempadoo.
Biography
Born in Sussex, England, "of mixed Indian, African, Scottish, and Amerindian descent", ...
(b. 1966)
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Karen King-Aribisala (living)
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Sharon Maas
Sharon Maas (born 1951) is a Guyanese-born novelist, who was educated in England, lived in India, and subsequently in Germany and in Sussex, United Kingdom. She is the author of ''The Sugar Planters Daughter.''
Biography
Maas was born in Georg ...
(b. 1951)
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Pauline Melville (b. 1948)
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Grace Nichols (b. 1950)
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Elly Niland (b. 1954)
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C. M. Rubin
Cathy Rubin, writing as C. M. Rubin, is a children's book writer. She is also the author of '' The Real Alice in Wonderland'', a biography of Alice Liddell.
Biography
C. M. Rubin was born in Georgetown, Guyana. She grew up all over the world, li ...
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Ryhaan Shah (living)
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Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979)
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Narmala Shewcharan (living)
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Jan Shinebourne (b. 1947)
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Rajkumari Singh (1923–1979)
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Maya Tiwari (b. 1952)
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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)
* Oon ...
Writers
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays ...