Roy Heath
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Roy Heath, born in 1926 is a Guyanese writer.
He is most famous for The Georgetown Trilogy (also know as The Armstrong Trilogy) consisting of From the Heat of the Day, One Generation, and Genetha (1979-1981).
Heath came to England from Guyana in 1951, and has lived there ever since. He read Modern Languages at London University and since 1959 has pursued a career as a novelist and a teacher.
In 1974 he completed his first novel, A Man Come Home. This was followed four years later when he published The Murderer, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize that same year and was described by the Observer as "mysteriously authentic, and unique as a work of art".
He also published Orealla Shadows, Round the Moon and Kwaku. Most recently he has written The Shadow Bride (1988) and The Ministry of Hope (1997).
Heath says that his work is "intended to be a dramatic chronicle of twentieth-century Guyana."
