Author · Guyana
Roy Heath
Died in 2008
Roy Heath was born on 13 August 1926 in Georgetown, the youngest child of a primary school headmaster, whom he lost at a very young age, and of a music teacher. A pupil at Central High School, he worked at the Treasury from 1944 to 1951, then left for London, where he took a degree in languages, was called to the bar in 1964 without ever pleading a case, and taught French and German while writing. All his novels are set in Guyana. In 1978 he received the Guardian Fiction Prize, and he died in London in 2008.