Rupert Roopnaraine (born 31 January 1943) is a Guyanese cricketer,writer,and politician. Roopnaraine served as Minister of Education of Guyana between 2015[1] and 2017.[2]
In 2015,Roopnaraine was appointed Minister of Education of Guyana.[1] In 2017,he was reassigned to Ministry of the Presidency,and Nicolette Henry replaced him as Minister of Education.[2]
Author
Primacy of the Eye:The Art of Stanley Greaves was published in 2003. Roopnaraine also contributed a substantial "Introduction" to the Peepal Tree Press 2010 edition of Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them.[5]
Roopnaraine's collection of essays,The Sky’s Wild Noise,won the non-fiction category of the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.[6] The judges commentated that "in the corpus of non-fiction prose in the Caribbean intellectual tradition,only JoséMartí and George Lamming rival the range of Roopnaraine’s capacities of response,depth of analysis and subtle and mordant style."[7]
Selected works
The Web of October:Rereading Martin Carter (Peepal Tree Press,1986)
Suite for Supriya (love poems;Peepal Tree Press,1993)
Primacy of the Eye:The Art of Stanley Greaves (Peepal Tree Press,2003)
The Sky’s Wild Noise:Selected Essays (Peepal Tree Press,2012)
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