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Mark McWatt
Guyanese writer and academic (born 1947)
Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947)[1] is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies.
Biography
McWatt was born in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position as a district officer. McWatt attended the University of Toronto (1966–70) and Leeds University, where he studied the works of Wilson Harris[2] and completed a Ph.D.
in 1975.[1] He took a position at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, as an assistant lecturer, then moved up to Professor of West Indian Literature in 1999, until retiring in 2007 as Professor Emeritus.[3]
He was founding editor, in 1986, of the Journal of West Indian Literature[1] and published three collections of poetry, the second of which, The Language of Eldorado (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize.
His first work of fiction, Suspend