Landmark is level 2 of 4 in the Guyana Hall of Fame: a first that opened a door, or the pre-eminent figure of their generation in this country. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A land surveyor turned novelist whose visionary fiction, beginning with Palace of the Peacock (1960), drew on the rivers and forests of the interior.
Harris published more than twenty novels and many essays and was knighted in 2010.
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