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.
Gordon Rohlehr
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Biography
Awards
2014 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, Bocas Henry Swanzy Awards
Years Attended
2011, 2011 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant
Gordon Rohlehr
Author
Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago
