Ruel Johnson

Ruel Johnson is an award-winning Guyanese author.

Johnson won the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for best first fiction manuscript for a collection of short stories entitled Ariadne and Other Stories,[1][2] which he self-published the following year with assistance from COURTS and GuyEnterprise. Johnson, then 22, was the youngest person ever to win the prize.[3]

He also won the 2012 Guyana Prize for Literature for submitting the best book of fiction.[4]

A former President's College (Golden Grove, Demerara/Mahaica, Guyana, South America) student who hails from Tucville Terrace, Greater Georgetown, Johnson is the eldest of five and has one child, Aidan.

References

  1. ↑ Mark McGowan, "Ruel Johnson launching Fictions at Carifesta", Stabroek News, 14 August 2008.
  2. ↑ Kaieteur News, 28 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "The Caribbean Diaspora", CARICOM Secretariat.
  4. ↑ http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/09/16/ruel-johnson-cops-guyana-prize-for-best-fiction/

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