Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald, born on 18 April 1933 at Saint Augustine, in Trinidad, to a Trinidadian mother and a father born in Saint Kitts, studied at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain and then history at Cambridge, and was junior tennis champion of his island. In 1955 he left for British Guiana, where he made a career in the sugar industry, edited a literary review, kept a newspaper column for nearly forty years and three times received the Guyana Prize for Literature for his poetry. He called himself Trinidadian by birth and West Indian by conviction. He died in 2026.

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• NovelThe Humming-Bird TreeIan McDonald · 1969Literature