Peter Kempadoo

Peter Kempadoo
Born1926
Guyana
Died24 August 2019 (aged 92)
London, England
Occupation(s)Writer and broadcaster
Notable workGuiana Boy (1960);
Old Thom's Harvest (1965)
ChildrenManganita, Kamala, Shamanee, Roshini, Malasula, Oonya, Sanjhevi, Valmiki, Anoushka

Peter "Lauchmonen" Kempadoo (1926 – 24 August 2019) was a writer and broadcaster from Guyana. He also worked as a development worker in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. He moved in 1953 to the UK, where he built a career in print journalism as well as radio and television broadcasting, and published two novels, Guiana Boy in 1960 — the first novel by a Guyanese of Indian descent — and Old Thom's Harvest in 1965, before returning to Guyana in 1970.[1] He died in London, aged 92.

  1. ^ Vibert C. Cambridge, Chapter 8, "The 1970s: “Making the Small Man a Real Man", Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Controlling Creativity, University Press of Mississippi, 2015.