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Cyril Dabydeen

Cyril Dabydeen was born on 15 October 1945 in Canje, in Berbice, and grew up on the Rose Hall sugar plantation, in a family that indenture had brought from India. A schoolteacher from 1961 to 1970, awarded a prize for his poetry as early as 1964, he left for Canada in 1970, took a master's degree in English and another in public administration there, and worked as a race relations specialist for municipal and federal administrations. Poet laureate of Ottawa from 1984 to 1987, he has several times received the Guyana Prize for Literature.

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