In the Bicentennial of the Slavery Abolition Act you are invited to an evening with Internationally Acclaimed Writer Fred D’Aguiar (pictured).
Born in London, partly raised in Guyana, and now Professor of English and Co-Director of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech, Fred D’Aguiar has a truly transatlantic perspective on the legacy of the slave trade.

Fred’s novels include Dear Future (1996), set on a fictional Caribbean island, and Feeding the Ghosts (1997), inspired by a visit he made to the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool and based on the true story of a slave who survived being thrown overboard with 132 other men, women and children from a slave ship in the Atlantic.

Fred D'Aguiar’s fourth novel, Bethany Bettany (2003), is centered on a five-year-old Guyanese girl, Bethany, whose suffering symbolises that of a nation seeking to make itself whole again.
Fred D’Aguiar is also a prolific playwright and poet. Recent poetry includes Bill of Rights (1998), a long narrative poem about the Jonestone massacre in Guyana in 1979, and Bloodlines, the story of a black slave and her white lover, (2000).