13 August 1926 — 14 May 2008
Roy Aubrey Kelvin Heath was born on 13 August 1926 in Georgetown, British Guiana. He grew up in Georgetown and was shaped by the city's social life and culture.
Heath moved to the United Kingdom, where he spent five decades working as a schoolteacher while also writing novels. His 1978 novel The Murderer won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He is best known for his Georgetown Trilogy — From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981) — which vividly portrayed life in Georgetown across different social strata.
Heath received the Guyana Prize for Literature. His novels are valued for their detailed, atmospheric portrayals of Guyanese society. He passed away on 14 May 2008 in London at the age of 81.
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