Fred D'Aguiar

Fred D'Aguiar (born 1960) is a British poet, novelist, and playwright of Guyanese descent, best known for his novel The Longest Memory (1994), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and David Higham Prize for Fiction, and poetry collections like Mama Dot (1985), which earned the Guyana Poetry Prize. Literature. His works often explore themes of slavery, diaspora, and Guyanese history, earning further accolades including the Cholmondeley Award (2019) and Fellowship in the Royal Society of Literature (2022).T.S. Eliot Prize, Brown University Literary Arts.