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Mahadai Das

Died in 2003

Mahadai Das was born in 1954 at Eccles, on the east bank of the Demerara. She studied at the University of Guyana, then philosophy at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. In Guyana, she was a beauty queen and a national service volunteer, before settling in the United States. She published three collections of poems in her lifetime, and critics count her among the first female voices of Indo-Guyanese poetry. She died in 2003 in Barbados.

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