Rooplall Monar

Rooplall Monar was born in 1945 at Lusignan, on the east coast of Demerara, in a labourers' dwelling on the plantation where his parents cut cane; the family moved in 1953 to the village of Annandale, where he lived thereafter. Educated at the schools of Lusignan and Buxton, then at Hindu College, he was a teacher, a clerk, a journalist and a radio man. A poet, short-story writer and novelist, he brought Indo-Guyanese Creole into literature. He died in 2024.

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