Sir Wilson Harris was a prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and lecturer. Born in 1921 in
British Guiana, his father died when he was two and his stepfather disappeared into the rainforests in 1929. He began working as a government surveyor in 1942 and led expeditions into the Amazonian interior for almost 15 years. In 1959 he left for England to become a full-time writer. The following year, Faber published his debut novel,
Palace of the Peacock
, which became a landmark of Caribbean literature and the first of
The Guyana Quartet. Over the course of his career, Faber published all 26 of Harris' novels, including
The Carnival Trilogy, Jonestown, The Mask of the Beggar, and
The Ghost of Memory. Harris was awarded numerous academic fellowships and honorary doctorates as well as being a Guggenheim Fellow. He twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature as well as a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Harris was knighted in 2010, and died in 2018 at the age of 96.
In un paesaggio equatoriale di foreste, fiumi, rocce e regioni costiere, la poesia di Wilson Harris legge e sogna tracce di miti greci e amerindi, memorie di antiche migrazioni, cicatrici di schiavitù ed echi di violenze contemporanee. In un intrico in cui diventa incerto ogni confine,...
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