• Source: Angus Richmond

      • Angus Percy Bain Richmond (10 January 1925 – 8 August 2007) was a Guyanese writer who spent most of his life in Britain.


      Biography


      Richmond was born and raised in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). He won a scholarship to study at Queen's College in Georgetown and received an external BA in English, French and Latin from the University of London in 1946. He arrived in England in 1950, joined shortly after by his partner Bridget Elise Croal (1923–2013), whom he married in 1951 in London, England, where they settled. They had one daughter, Jean Evelyn Bridget (1952–2017).
      His writing, which includes novels, short stories, poetry and essays, explores racial and class-based struggles, mostly within a Guyanese context.
      He was awarded the 1978 Casa de las Américas Prize for his debut novel, A Kind of Living.
      Richmond was close friends with fellow Guyanese writers John Agard and Grace Nichols.


      Awards


      1978: Casa de las Américas Prize for A Kind of Living
      1983: The President's Prize at the Association for Caribbean Studies Conference for the essay "The Sociology of the West Indian Novel in English"
      1985: The Greater London Council Award for an unpublished manuscript
      1989: The Guyana Prize for Fiction for The Open Prison (shortlisted)


      Bibliography


      A Kind of Living (1978)
      The Open Prison (1988)
      Shame (1988)


      See also


      Jan Carew
      Roy Heath


      References




      External links


      "The long and short of The Guyana Prize". Guyana Chronicle, 12 January 2013.
      Al Creighton, "Dissecting Roy Heath and Guyanese Literature", Stabroek News, 22 July 2018.

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