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词条 Angus Richmond
释义

  1. Background

  2. Awards

  3. Bibliography

  4. References

  5. External links

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Angus Percy Bain Richmond (10 January 1925 – 8 August 2007) was a Guyanese novelist and poet who spent the latter part of his life in Britain.

Background

Richmond was born and raised in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). He won a scholarship to study at Queen's College in Georgetown and went on to read English, French and Latin at the University of London. Themes of race and class are prevalent in Richmond's work. In 19.. he married Bridget Richmond. They moved to London, England, in... Richmond was close friends with fellow Guyanese writers John Agard and Grace Nichols. Richmond is succeeded by one daughter, Jean, who is a teacher.

Awards

  • 1978: Casa de las Américas Prize for A Kind of Living
  • 1985: The Greater London Council Award for The Open Prison
  • 1989: The Guyana Prize for Fiction for The Open Prison[1]

Bibliography

  • A Kind of Living (1978)
  • The Open Prison (1988)[2]

References

1. ^"The long and short of The Guyana Prize", Guyana Chronicle, 12 January 2013.
2. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Open-Prison-Angus-Richmond/dp/187051825X/ref=la_B001K86E4C_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493278175&sr=1-1 Open Prison] at Amazon.
  • Creighton, Al, in Benson, Eugene, and L. W. Conolly, Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, 2nd edn, Routledge, 2004, p. 1356

External links

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7 : 1925 births|2007 deaths|Guyanese novelists|Guyanese poets|Alumni of the University of London|Alumni of Queen's College, Guyana|20th-century male writers

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