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 novelist, playwright and scholar whose first novel, Black Midas (1958), followed a pork-knocker, a gold and diamond prospector, in the Guyanese interior.
Carew later taught African American studies at Northwestern University.
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