January 8th, 2007 |
by Voice of Guyana |
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Books & Writers
Clem Seecharan was born in Guyana, where he taught at the University of Guyana for some years. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Warwick and currently teaches on the Caribbean Studies programme at the University of North London. His publications include (with Frank Birbalsingh) Indo-West Indian Cricket (Hansib, 1988), India and the Shaping [...]
January 8th, 2007 |
by Voice of Guyana |
published in
Books & Writers
Dr David Chanderbali was born in Guyana. He studied in Guyana and completed doctoral research at the Australian National University. He taught in the Department of History at the University of Guyana and is now the Registrar at that university. He is the author of A portrait of paternalism: Governor Henry Light of British Guyana, [...]
January 8th, 2007 |
by Voice of Guyana |
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Books & Writers
Brian Chan was born in Guyana in 1949. He began to establish a reputation as a poet of talent with his work in Expression in the early 1970s, part of a group that included Janice Lowe (Shinebourne) and N.D. Williams. He had poems published in Caribbean Quarterly, Artrage, and One People’s Grief and is included [...]
January 8th, 2007 |
by Voice of Guyana |
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Books & Writers
Churaumanie Bissundyal was born in 1950 in the Mahaicony River area, Guyana, but grew up in Leguan in the Essequibo River. His father was a sea-defence labourer and his mother a worker in the rice fields. He attended an Anglican school in Leguan and later worked as a schoolteacher in the North West District, and [...]
January 8th, 2007 |
by Voice of Guyana |
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Books & Writers
Dale Bisnauth was born in rural Guyana in 1936. His parents were farmers as were their parents. He attended the Unity Theological College of the West Indies (Jamaica), where he was trained for the ministry of the Guyana Presbyterian Church, having been converted from his Hindu background to Christianity at the age of fifteen. He [...]