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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