Roy Heath
Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) 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. 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".
Roy A. K. Heath | |
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| Born | Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath 13 August 1926 Georgetown, British Guiana |
| Died | 14 May 2008 (aged 81) London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, teacher |
| Nationality | Guyanese |
| Alma mater | University of London Lincoln's Inn |
| Notable works | The Murderer (1978); "The Georgetown Trilogy": From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), Genetha (1981) |
| Notable awards | Guardian Fiction Prize; Guyana Prize for Literature |
| Children | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
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