A. J. Seymour

Arthur James Seymour was born in 1914 in Georgetown and entered Queen's College in 1928 on a scholarship. A colonial civil servant from 1933, he headed the information service, then worked for the Caribbean Organisation in Puerto Rico and for the Demerara Bauxite Company, before coordinating in 1972 the literary part of the first Carifesta and heading creative writing at the Department of Culture. In 1945 he founded the review Kyk-Over-Al, which he edited until 1961. He died in 1989.

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