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Guyanese literature covers works including novels, poetry, plays and others written by people born or strongly-affiliated with Guyana. Formerly British Guiana, British language and style has an enduring impact on the writings from Guyana, which are done in English language and utilizing Guyanese Creole. Emigration has contributed to a large ...
Albert Raymond Forbes Webber FRGS (1 January 1880 – 29 June 1932) was a Tobago-born Guyanese politician, author and newspaper editor. [1]He was author of Those That Be in Bondage: A Tale of Indian Indentures and Sunlit Western Waters (1917), a novel described as "a strange mixture of romantic sentimentality and protest against the treatment of East Indian indentured labourers on Guyanese ...
Over the nearly fifty years of his career, Seymour also held senior positions in a number of cultural institutions; among others, he was Honorary Secretary of the British Guiana Union of Cultural Clubs (1943–1950), Deputy Chairman of the Guyana National Trust (1974–1975), President of the British Guiana Music Festival Committee, and ...
Between 1990 and 1995 he was a member of the Guyana Book Foundation, which encourages the wide distribution of books and the establishment of small publishers. He was also a member of the National Archives Advisory Committee. He is a member of the Guyana National Nominating Committee for the Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence, [6] from 2006.
Michael Arthur Gilkes (5 November 1933 – 14 April 2020) [1] [2] was a Caribbean literary critic, dramatist, poet, filmmaker and university lecturer. He was involved in theatre for more than 40 years, [3] as a director, actor and playwright, [4] [5] winning the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992 and 2006, as well as the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002.
Fred D'Aguiar was born in London, England, in 1960 to Guyanese parents, Malcolm Frederick D'Aguiar and Kathleen Agatha Messiah. [2] In 1962 he was taken to Guyana, living there with his grandmother until 1972, when he returned to England at the age of 12.
Agard was born in British Guiana (now Guyana), and grew up in Georgetown. He loved to listen to cricket commentary on the radio and began making up his own, which led to a love of language. [3] He went on to study English, French and Latin at A-Level, writing his first published poetry when he was in the sixth form, and left school in 1967. He ...
Braithwaite continued to write novels and short stories throughout his long international career as an educational consultant and lecturer for UNESCO. He was the first Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations from 1967 to 1969. [4] He was elected to the presidency of the United Nations Council for South West Africa in 1968.