Guyanese literature information

Guyanese literature covers works including novels, poetry, plays and others written by people born or strongly-affiliated with Guyana. Formerly British...

The people of Guyana, or Guyanese, come from a wide array of backgrounds and cultures including aboriginal natives, African and Indian origins, as well...

British Guyanese are notable for their contributions to literature and music. At the time of the 2001 UK Census there were 20,872 Guyanese-born people...

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"Island Man" is a poem by Grace Nichols. It is about a man living in London who is thinking about his former home in the Caribbean. v t e...

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Antillean-Guyanese literature in relation to the themes addressed, which are mainly related to slavery and other social problems. Thus, this literature takes...

financial and aesthetic. Without that encouragement the birth of a Caribbean literature would have been slower and even more painful than it has been". During...

Yardan (1943–1989) List of Guyanese List of Guyanese artists Al Creighton, "A brief look at Guyanese Independence literature", Stabroek News, 29 May 2016...

June 1927 – 13 December 1997) was a Guyanese poet and political activist. Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important...

Repentir Cemetery. Also Egbert Martin regarded as the founder of modern Guyanese literature was buried here. New York policeman Randolph Holder killed in the...

known as Guyanese Hindustani, Guyanese Bhojpuri, Puraniya Hindi, or Aili Gaili. It is spoken by some members in a community of 300,000 Indo-Guyanese, mostly...

strong impact on the literature of the region.[citation needed] In Guyana Indo-Guyanese writers have had a strong impact on the literature of Guyana. Notable...

Pauline Melville FRSL (born 1948) is an English-Guyanese writer and former actress of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, who is currently based in...

Guyanese culture reflects the influence of Indian, African, Amerindian, British, Portuguese, Chinese, Creole, and Dutch cultures. Guyana is part of the...

Amerindians. Guyanese Hindustani is spoken by the older generation of the Indo-Guyanese community, but younger Guyanese use English or Guyanese Creole. Indo-Surinamese...

David Dabydeen FRSL (born 9 December 1955) is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic. He was formerly Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO (United...

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...

a collective of Guyanese artists seeking greater recognition of the contributions of Indo-Guyanese people to the country's literature. Around the same...

John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's...

My Flute: A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner is a 1955 novel by Guyanese author Edgar Mittelholzer. British Guiana, 1933. A jumbee (ghost) of a...

Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (16 December 1909 – 6 May 1965) was a Guyanese novelist. He is the earliest professional novelist from the English-speaking Caribbean...

(Channel 4). Scipio was born in Islington, London, England, and has Indo-Guyanese and English ancestry. Scipio attended St. Michael's Church of England Primary...