Rupert Roopnaraine picks up Bocas non-fiction prize

The prize of US$10,000 is part of the annual National Gas Company (NGC) Bocas Lit Fest and is sponsored by OCM, the holding company of the Caribbean Communications Network, parent company of the Express and TV6.

[color=rgb(41, 39, 39)][size=15px]Guyanese writer Rupert Roopnarine won the non-fiction category for his work The Sky’s Wild Noise.[/size][/color]

hhhhmmmm....non fiction ?

Gotta check into this Wild noise in the Sky 

The collection’s title is taken from the body of a 1980 poem by Martin Carter,

For Walter Rodney, written in commemoration of that Guyanese political luminary’s assassination.

Roopnaraine functions as the vice-chairman of the coalition party A Partnership for National Unity,

and is a forerunning member of the 1974-established Working People’s Alliance. ...

http://www.guardian.co.tt/arts/2013-04-2...ve-precise

                     

Historian Richard Drayton, was unstinting in its praise !! 

“In the corpus of non-fiction prose in the Caribbean intellectual tradition,

only José Martí and George Lamming rival:

the range of Roopnaraine’s capacities of response, depth of analysis, and subtle and mordant style,”