# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-heath
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:11:32.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-heath"
name: "Roy Heath"
slug: "roy-heath"
description: "Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath was a Guyanese writer who settled in the UK, where he lived for five decades, working as a schoolteacher as well as writing. His 1978 novel The Murderer won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He went on to become more noted for his \"Georgetown Trilogy\" of novels, consisting of From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981), which were also published in an omnibus volume as The Armstrong Trilogy, 1994. Heath said that his writing was \"intended to be a dramatic chronicle of twentieth-century Guyana\"."
tagline: "Guyanese writer (1926-2008)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-08-13"
deathDate: "2008-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472138666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "روی هیت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "روي هيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "روى هيث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%93%D1%96%D1%82"
    title: "Рой Гіт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Heath"
    title: "Roy Heath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Heath"
    title: "Roy Heath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7372923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump