Dr. David Dabydeen

By John Mair

The writer Professor David Dabydeen is used to breaking records but he could break the ultimate one if his last novel MOLLY AND THE MUSLIM STICK wins the Guyana Prize for Fiction  for a record fourth time on August 31st in Georgetown .

The Guyana Prize is the most valuable literary award in the Caribbean. Insiders on the Prize jury hotly tip Guyana’s ambassador to China to pull this off. The result is a closely guarded secret but leaks to this effect are already coming to the ears of this writer. If true,this would be an astonishing achievement for Professor Dabydeen, latterly of the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at Warwick University.