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The first book written on Guyana, by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 16th century, was The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana (With a Relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (Which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and of the Provinces of Emeria, Aromaia, Amapaia, and Other Countries, with Their Riulers, Adjoyning (Robert Robinson: London, 1596).
In 1997 the Government of Guyana approved the extension plans and committed funds for the work, which began the following year. [4] In 1993, the National Library purchased and installed its first computers, and in 2002 it installed a free internet service. [4] In 2013, the National Library of Guyana celebrated its centenary.
In 1984, he edited the book AJS at 70 in honour of Guyana's great man of letters A. J. Seymour's 70th birthday. Also in 1984, he was instrumental in reviving the literary magazine Kyk-Over-Al , which had first been published in Guyana between 1954 and 1961, and was joint editor, with A. J. Seymour, until Seymour's death in 1989, after which ...
Despite their diverse ethnic backgrounds, most groups share a common language of English and its Guyanese English Creole vernacular. The largest ethnic group is the Indo-Guyanese (also known as East Indians ), the descendants of indentured labourers from India who make up 43.5% of the population, according to the 2002 census.
Since 1966 it has been known as the independent nation of Guyana. [2] [page needed] The first known Europeans to encounter Guiana were Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer, and his crew. Raleigh published a book entitled The Discovery of Guiana, but this mainly relates to the Guayana region of Venezuela.
Ruel Johnson is a Guyanese author.. Johnson won the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for best first fiction manuscript for a collection of short stories entitled Ariadne and Other Stories, [1] [2] which he self-published the following year with assistance from COURTS and GuyEnterprise.
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but subsequently became a novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.