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Wilson Harris

Died in 2018

Wilson Harris was born in 1921 in New Amsterdam, in British Guiana. His father died early, and his stepfather, a surveyor, disappeared in the interior forest when he was a child. A former pupil of Queen's College in Georgetown, he spent some fifteen years as a government surveyor, leading expeditions into the savannas and forests of the country, and contributed poems and stories to the journal Kyk-over-Al. Settled in England in 1959, he was knighted in 2010 for services to literature and died in 2018.

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