Richard George

Richard George (an haife shi a shekara ta 1982) shi ne mawaki na farko da ya lashe kyautar tsibirin Virgin Islands na Burtaniya .  Shi ne shugaban yanzu na Kwalejin Al'umma ta H. Lavity Stoutt  kuma editan kafa MOKO: Caribbean Arts & Letters .  An haife shi a Port of Spain, Trinidad, Georges ya girma kuma a halin yanzu yana zaune a tsibirin Virgin Islands na Burtaniya.

 Ilimi 
Georges ya sami B.A. (Turanci) daga Jami'ar Kirista ta Texas, MA (Rubuce-rubuce na Kirkira) daga Jami'ar Aberystwyth, da Ph.D. (Rubucen Kirkira da Rubuce-Rubuce) daga Jami" daga Jami'arsa ta Sussex, inda ya buga rubutunsa "Charting the sea in Caribbean poetry: Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, Dionne Brand, Alphaeus Norman, Verna Penn Moll, da Richard Georges.

Georges ya ce yayin da yake karatu don digiri na BA, ya sami kansa "yana ƙauna da hotuna da rhyme kuma zai sami daidaituwa tsakanin marubuta kamar Walcott da Eliot tare da rappers kamar Nas da Eminem. "

 Rubuce-rubuce 
Waƙoƙin Georges suna cikin sha'awar teku yayin da suke magana game da tarihin tashin hankali na Caribbean da abubuwan da suka faru kwanan nan kamar Guguwar Irma da rikicin yanayi.

Make Us All Islands, littafin waka na farko na Georges (Shearsman Books, 2017) an sanya shi cikin jerin sunayen don Kyautar Felix Dennis don Mafi Kyawun Tarin Farko ta Kyautar Farko don Waƙoƙi.

A cikin 2018, tarin Georges na biyu, Giant (Platypus Press) ya sami yabo sosai daga Kyautar Forward kuma an jera shi don Kyautar OCM Bocas ta 2019 don Littattafan Caribbean.  A wannan shekarar, Georges ya gabatar da jawabin "Ikon shayari" don TEDx Tortola . 

A cikin 2020, Georges ya lashe rukunin shayari da kuma kyautar OCM Bocas gabaɗaya don wallafe-wallafen Caribbean tare da tarin sa na uku, Epiphaneia .   
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1982

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