Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wilson Harris
Born: March 24, 1921
Died: March 8, 2018 (aged 96)
Bio: Sir Theodore Wilson Harris was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.
Known for:
- Palace of the Peacock (1960)
- The Guyana quartet (1985)
- The Ghost of Memory (2006)
- The Carnival Trilogy (1993)
- The eye of the scarecrow (1965)