Denis Williams

Andrew Lindsay (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

Dates

Born 1 Feb 1923
Died 1998
Activity 1943-1998

Places

Born in Guyana
Active in Guyana; Sudan

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Painter

Resources

Williams' Works

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Denis Joseph Ivan Williams was born on 1st February 1923 in Georgetown, British Guiana. His Barbadian mother Isabella was a much-sought-after seamstress and a keen amateur artist; his father Joseph was a devout Jehovah's Witness who worked as a purser on a ship plying its trade along the colony's great rivers. By the time he was eleven he had become impatient with the slow progress of his peers and decided he did not wish to attend school, so for about a year he studied at home. He then returned to secondary education and by 1941 he had successfully completed the Cambridge Senior School Certificate.

In early childhood he had decided to be an artist and writer. He now joined the British Guiana Arts and Crafts Society, and soon made a considerable reputation for himself as a figure and

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Citation: Lindsay, Andrew. "Denis Williams". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 April 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11791, accessed 22 November 2024.]