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Professor David Dabydeen is a Guyanese-born writer, critic and academic at the Centre of Caribbean Studies at
the University of Warwick. In 1993 he became Guyana's ambassador at UNESCO and is still a member of their
Executive Board. He has been Guyana's ambassador to China since 2010. Professor Dabydeen has also won several
international and national prizes such as the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Quiller-Couch Prize, and the Hind
Rattan (Jewel of India). Among his works are Slave Song (1984), The Intended (1991), Disappearance (1993);and Our
Lady of Demerara (2004). He also co-editedThe Oxford Companion to Black British History in 2007