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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 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 ...
Guyana Farewell: A Recollection of Childhood in a Faraway Place. New York: N. Bacchus. ISBN 978-0-962-41921-8. LCCN 96102460. Colchester, Marcus (1997). Guyana: Fragile Frontier. London: Latin American Bureau. ISBN 978-0-85345-971-2. Young, Matthew French (1998). Guyana, The Lost El Dorado: a Report on My Work and Life Experiences in Guyana ...
Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (16 December 1909 – 6 May 1965) was a Guyanese novelist. He is the earliest professional novelist from the English-speaking Caribbean. He was able to develop a readership in Europe and North America, as well as the Caribbean; and established himself in London, where he lived almost exclusively by writing fiction. [1]
Maggie Harris is a Guyanese poet, prose writer, and visual artist. She was awarded the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2000 and 2014 for her collections of poetry Limbolands and Sixty Years of Loving, respectively.
As noted by Eusi Kwayana, Carew "was an environmentalist long before it become fashionable" and made a recommendation to the government of Guyana for an international involvement for a million acres of forestland in Guyana, which inspired an Act on the Guyanese statute book to provide for approximately 360,000 hectares of tropical rainforest ...
He is the author of several books, including Next Witness, The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics, Scars of Bondage, Guyana: No Guilty Race, Buxton in Print and Memory, Morning After, Genesis of a Nation: The Indo-Guyanese Contribution to Social Change (in Guyana) and Walter Rodney: His Last Days and Campaigns. Kwayana also wrote the lyrics of ...