Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Guyana Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A poet and novelist, born in London and raised in Guyana, whose writing returns again and again to slavery and its memory.
His first novel, The Longest Memory (1994), won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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