Guyanese literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Guyanese writers, Cy Grant, John Agard, Jan Carew, Walter Rodney, Edgar Mittelholzer, A. J. Seymour, Beryl Gilroy, Fred D'Aguiar, Wilson Harris, David Dabydeen, Kyk-Over-Al, Pauline Melville, Elly Niland, Denis Williams, Ian McDonald, Roy Heath, Peter Ramsaroop, Ian Valz, Oscar Dathorne, Rupert Roopnaraine, Martin Carter, Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson, George James, N. E. Cameron, Mahadai Das, Stanley Greaves, Michael Abbensetts, Marc Matthews, Mark McWatt, Judaman Seecoomar, N. D. Williams, Sharon Maas, Clem Seecharan, Dale Bisnauth, Brenda DoHarris, Ryhaan Shah, Jan Shinebourne, Harischandra Khemraj, Kampta Karran, Sheik Sadeek, Laxmi Kallicharan, Peter Kempadoo, Narmala Shewcharan, Michael Gilkes, Wordsworth McAndrew, Oonya Kempadoo, Lloyd Searwar, Raywat Deonandan, Ruel Johnson, Moses Nagamootoo, Joel Benjamin, Guyanese women writers. Excerpt: Cy Grant (8 November 1919 - 13 February 2010) was a Guyanese actor, singer and writer who in the 1950s became the first black person to appear regularly on British television. Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he worked as an actor and singer, before setting up the Drum Arts Centre in the 1970s appointed director of Concord Multicultural Festivals in the early 1980s. A published poet and author of several books, including his 2007 memoir Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, he was an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University, a title awarded in 1997, and since 2001 a member of the Scientific and Medical Network. In 2008 he was instrumental in setting up an online archive to trace and commemorate Caribbean aircrew from World War II. A father of four children, Grant lived in Highgate, London, with his wife Dorith. Grant was born in the village of Beterverwagting, Demerara, British Guiana (modern-day Guyana), one of seven children in a close-knit middle-class family. His father was a Moravian minister and his mother a music teacher originally from Antigua. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to New Amsterdam, Berbice. After leaving high school, Grant worked as a clerk in the office of a stipendiary magistrate but was unable to study law overseas because of lack of funds. In 1941 he joined the Royal Air Force, which had begun to admit non-white candidates following great losses in the Battle of Britain the previous year. One of around 500 young men recruited from the Caribbean for aircrews, he was commissioned as an officer after training in England as a navigator. He joined 103 Squadron based at Elsham Wolds in Lincolnshire, one of a seven-man crew of a Lancaster Bomber. On his third mission, Flight Lieutenant Grant was shot down over the Netherlands during the 1943 RAF offensive, Battle of the Ruhr. He parachuted to safety in a field but was captured by the Germans and was made a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III camp, 160 km east of Ber