Mark McWatt

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Mark McWatt (born 1947) is a Guyanese writer and educator.

Born in Guyana, McWatt studied at the University of Toronto and Leeds University, where he completed a Ph.D. He currently heads the English Department at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados.

McWatt has published two collections of poetry, the second of which, The Language of Eldorado (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize. Suspended Sentences (2005), his first work of fiction, was the winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

  • Interiors - 1989
  • The Language of Eldorado — 1994
  • Ana
  • Ol' Higue

[edit] Fiction

  • Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement — 2005

[edit] Anthologies

  • The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse — 2005 (edited with Stewart Brown)