It has been four years since the Guyana Prize for Literature was last awarded and members of the literary community have begun to despair that the Prize will ever be resurrected.
The widely hailed Prize was the brainchild of the late President, Desmond Hoyte.
Ruel Johnson, who won the prize for best first fiction manuscript in 2002, has described the APNU+AFC government’s actions in relation to the prize as the low-point in a pattern of decimation of culture.