Having won the Guyana Prize for Literature three times, Harold Bascom has nothing to prove. He is the real deal. The celebrated Guyanese playwright is now focused being recognised and winning an award for film in the USA, his adopted homeland. As he puts it, “Those are my latter goals—do or die.”
Considering what he has done so far, Harold’s latter goals are certainly within his reach.
Born in the small East Bank Essequibo village of Vergenoegen, Harold spent most of his childhood and teen years as a bit of a nomad; Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara; Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara and by his