Rupert Roopnaraine
Rupert Roopnaraine | |
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Minister of Education | |
In office 2015–2017 | |
President | David A. Granger |
Preceded by | Shaik K.Z. Baksh |
Succeeded by | Nicolette Henry |
Personal details | |
Born | Georgetown, Guyana | 31 January 1943
Nationality | Guyanese |
Political party | Working People's Alliance |
Occupation | Author, politician, cricket player |
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Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off-break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1964–66 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive |
Rupert Roopnaraine (born 31 January 1943) is a Guyanese cricketer, writer, and politician. Roopnaraine served as Minister of Education of Guyana between 2015[1] and 2017.[2]
Biography
Roopnaraine was born in Kitty,
In 1970 he was awarded a scholarship to
Politics
He joined the
In 2015, Roopnaraine was appointed Minister of Education of Guyana.[1] In 2017, he was reassigned to Ministry of the Presidency, and Nicolette Henry replaced him as Minister of Education.[2]
Author
Roopnaraine is one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of his generation,[5] though political activism has restricted his output. Nevertheless, he is an art critic (champion of the work of Stanley Greaves), literary critic (author of a pioneering essay on Martin Carter), film-maker (The Terror and the Time) and poet.[5] He is the author of The Web of October: Rereading Martin Carter (1986), a suite of love poems entitled Suite for Supriya (1993), and Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published in 2003. Roopnaraine also contributed a substantial "Introduction" to the Peepal Tree Press 2010 edition of Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them.[5]
Roopnaraine's collection of essays, The Sky’s Wild Noise, won the non-fiction category of the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.[6] The judges commentated that "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."[7]
Selected works
- The Web of October: Rereading Martin Carter (Peepal Tree Press, 1986)
- Suite for Supriya (love poems; Peepal Tree Press, 1993)
- Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves (Peepal Tree Press, 2003)
- The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays (Peepal Tree Press, 2012)
References
- ^ a b "Nicolette Henry, Minister of Education". Guyana Chronicle. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Roopnaraine no longer Education Minister; Nicolette Henry to take full control of Ministry". Demerara Waves. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ISBN 9781134468485.
- ^ "Rupert Roopnaraine". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Rupert Roopnaraine". Peepal Tree Press. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ "Roopnaraine wins Bocas non-fiction literary prize", Guyana Times, 30 April 2013.
- ^ "Rupert Roopnaraine wins major literary award", Kaieteur News, 30 April 2013.