“Novelist, diplomat, UNESCO Ambassador”
Born in Berbice in 1955, David Dabydeen is one of the most distinguished Guyanese literary figures alive. His first book "Slave Song" (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and he has published eight novels and three poetry collections. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he served as Guyana's Ambassador to UNESCO and to China. In 2020, he founded the Ameena Gafoor Institute for the Study of Indentureship in London.
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