A literary evening is billed for Saturday at Cara Lodge Hotel in Georgetown between 7.30 pm and 9.00 pm, and it will feature some of Guyana’s finest and most exciting authors.
According to a press release, the event is free and entirely open to the public.
This literary evening, the release added, offers a chance for the public to catch some of Guyana’s best writers giving readings from their prose and poetry. And it promises to be an exciting, entertaining, and unique evening.
Those who will be reading from their work include Ruel Johnson (winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, 2002), Oonya Kempadoo (winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize, 2001), Ian McDonald (winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, 1992, 2003), Mark McWatt (winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, 1994; winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 2006), Pauline Melville (winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize, 1990; winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award, 1997), and Elly Niland (winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, 2007).
The release said further that the literary evening arises out of a conference that will be taking place in Georgetown on the weekend of September 4-5, funded by Warwick University of the UK.
The conference, entitled “The Arts and the Environment” aims to examine the role of the environment in shaping the Guyanese imagination, and to consider the influence of the country’s landscapes, seascapes, flora and fauna on cultural production. It will also seek to promote discussion about the ways in which writers and artists might be engaged in promoting environmentalism in Guyana.
For more information, please contact Michael Niblett (M.Niblett@warwick. ac.uk) or Petamber Persaud (oraltradition2002@vahoo.com), the release added.