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Ian McDonald


Born
in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
April 18, 1933

Died
July 24, 2026


Ian McDonald was born on 18 April 1933, in St Augustine, Trinidad.
He came to the then British Guiana in 1955 with the Booker Group of Companies. He has lived and worked in Guyana ever since. He spent a long career in the sugar industry.
He wrote poems, short stories, a novel "The Humming-Bird Tree" (1969), and an one-act play, "The Tramping Man" (1969).

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The Humming-Bird Tree
3.58 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions
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They Came in Ships: An Anth...
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Essequibo: Poems by Ian McD...
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Jaffo the calypsonian
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Between Silence and Silence
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Mercy Ward
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Demographic Change in Asia ...
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