Lloyd Searwar
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Lloyd Searwar was a career Guyanese diplomat, and later the Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Guyana
. He has a distinguished record of public service and has been a stalwart supporter of literature and culture in Guyana.
In 1998 Peepal Tree Press
published his anthology, They Came in Ships: an Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Writing. This anthology of prose and poetry shows how the Indians changed the character of Guyana and the Caribbean and how, over 150 years of settlement, Indians became Indo-Guyanese.
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
. He has a distinguished record of public service and has been a stalwart supporter of literature and culture in Guyana.
In 1998 Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press, based in England, publishes Caribbean, Black British and South Asian fiction, poetry and academic books.Peepal Tree is a wholly independent company, founded in 1985, and now publishes around 30-40 books a year. Peepal Tree Press has published over 250 titles, and states a...
published his anthology, They Came in Ships: an Anthology of Indo-Guyanese Writing. This anthology of prose and poetry shows how the Indians changed the character of Guyana and the Caribbean and how, over 150 years of settlement, Indians became Indo-Guyanese.