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Wilson Harris (Born March 4, 1921) is a Guyanese writer. He first wrote poetry, but since has become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be quite abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter very wide-ranging. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ...
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Background Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in the then British Guiana. After studying at Queen's College in the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, Harris became a government surveyor, before taking up a career as lecturer and writer. The knowledge of the savannas and rain forests he gained during his time as a surveyor has formed the setting for many of his books, with the Guyanese landscape dominating his fiction. New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam in Dutch) is one of the largest towns in Guyana, not far from the capital, Georgetown. ...
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He came to England in 1959 and published his first novel Palace of the Peacock in 1960.This became the first of a quartet of novels, The Guyana Quartet, which consists of The Far Journey of Oudin (1961), The Whole Armour (1962), and The Secret Ladder (1963). He later wrote a trilogy, Carnival (1985), consisting of The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), and The Four Banks of the River of Space (1990).
His most recent novels are Jonestown (1996), which tells of the mass-suicide of a thousand followers of cult leader Jim Jones; The Dark Jester (2001) and his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Mask of the Beggar (2003). Houses in Jonestown Jonestown was the communal settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California. ...
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Wilson Harris also writes non-fiction and critical essays and has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, including the University of the West Indies (1984) and the University of Liège (2001). He has twice been winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature. The University of the West Indies, also known as UWI, is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries and territories in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ...
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Works
Novels Palace of the Peacock, 1960
The Far Journey of Oudin, 1961
The Whole Armour, 1962
The Secret Ladder, 1963
Heartland, 1964
The Eye of the Scarecrow, 1965
The Waiting Room, 1967
Tumatumari, 1968
Ascent to Omai, 1970
The Sleepers of Roraima (illustrated by Kay Usborne), 1970
The Age of the Rainmakers (illustrated by Kay Usborne), 1971
Black Marsden: A Tabula Rasa Comedy, 1972
Companions of the Day and Night, 1975
Enigma of Values: An Introduction, 1975
Da Silva da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness/Genesis of the Clowns, 1977
The Tree of the Sun, 1978
The Angel at the Gate, 1982
Carnival, 1985
The Guyana Quartet (Palace of the Peacock, The Far Journey of Oudin,The Whole Armour, The Secret Ladder), 1985
The Infinite Rehearsal, 1987
The Four Banks of the River of Space, 1990
Resurrection at Sorrow Hill, 1993
The Carnival Trilogy (The Infinite Rehearsal, The Four Banks of the River of Space, Carnival), 1993
Jonestown, 1996
The Dark Jester, 2001
The Mask of the Beggar, 2003
Short stories The Sleepers of Roraima, 1970
The Age of the Rainmakers, 1971
Poetry Fetish Miniature Poets Series, 1951
The Well and the Land, 1952
Eternity to Season, 1954
Nonfiction Tradition and the West Indian Novel (lecture), 1965
Tradition, the Writer and Society: Critical Essays, 1967
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas, 1970
Fossil and Psyche, 1974
Explorations: A Series of Talks and Articles 1966- 1981, 1981
The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination, 1983
The Radical Imagination (essays), 1992
Selected Essays, 1999
Prizes and awards 1987 Guyana Prize for Literature
1992 Premio Mondello dei Cinque Continenti
2002 Guyana Prize for Literature (Special Award)
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