David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen was born in 1955 in Berbice, in British Guiana, and went to England at thirteen, in 1969. A graduate in English from Cambridge in 1978, a doctor of University College London and a researcher at Oxford, he taught at the University of Warwick, where he directed the Centre for Caribbean Studies. A poet, novelist and critic of eighteenth-century art and letters, he also represented Guyana at Unesco, then as ambassador to China from 2010 to 2015.

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• PoetrySlave SongDavid Dabydeen · 1984Literature