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Roy Heath

Guyanese writer (1926-2008) · Guyana · On the map · Writers · Died at 81

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.

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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".

Country
Guyana
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1926 to 2008 · aged 81