Gordon Rohlehr
Author / Professor Emeritus
Gordon Rohlehr, Guyana-born literary scholar long based in Trinidad, is Emeritus Professor at UWI, St. Augustine. His books include Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990), My Strangled City and Other Essays (1992), The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (1992), and A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (2004), Perfected Fables Now: A Bookman Signs Off on Seven Decades (2019) and Musings, Mazes, Muses, Margins (2020). He was honoured in 2014 with the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award.