ABSTRACT
When Fred D’Aguiar interviewed Wilson Harris in 1986, Harris was
already established as one of the most original writers of the anglophone
Caribbean. Immigrating to England in 1949 after pioneering pre-war
Caribbean writing in the Guyanese ‘little magazine’ Kyk-Over-Al from
1945, by 1986 he had published two collections of poetry, three books of
criticism and seventeen novels, besides numerous interviews, reviews and
essays. Prominent among these were his first four Guyana-based novels,
republished as The Guyana Quartet (1985); Tumatumari (1968) and
Black Marsden (1972). Carnival had appeared in 1985, just prior to this
interview, and more novels were to follow.
