Fred D'Aguiar Follow

Fred D'Aguiar is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, and poet. He has been short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for Bill of Rights, a narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory. Born in London, he was raised in Guyana until the age of twelve, when he returned to the UK. He teaches at Virginia Tech and is an American citizen.