Fred D’Aguiar

Fred D-Aguiar is an author and poet who was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived in Guyana until aged 12 and returned to England in 1972 where he trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. An avid writer, he started with poetry then turned his hand to novels. He also wrote plays which were performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London and broadcasted on BBC Radio. He continues to write and currently teaches at Miami University in Florida, USA.