Rupert Roopnaraine


Rupert Roopnaraine is a Guyanese cricketer, writer, and politician. Roopnaraine served as Ministry [of Education (Guyana)#List|Minister of Education] of Guyana between 2015 and 2017.

Biography

Roopnaraine was born in Kitty, Georgetown, Guyana. He played first-class cricket for the Cambridge [University Cricket Club|Cambridge University] team from 1964 to 1966 and was awarded a Blue for representing the university in the annual University Match against Oxford in 1965 and 1966. As a cricketer, he was a lower order right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.

Politics

In 2015, Roopnaraine was appointed Ministry of [Education (Guyana)#List|Minister of Education] of Guyana. In 2017, he was reassigned to Ministry of the Presidency, and Nicolette Henry replaced him as Minister of Education.

Author

Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published in 2003. Roopnaraine also contributed a substantial "Introduction" to the Peepal Tree Press 2010 edition of Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them.
Roopnaraine's collection of essays, The Sky’s Wild Noise, won the non-fiction category of the 2013 OCM [Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature]. The judges commentated that "in the corpus of non-fiction prose in the Caribbean intellectual tradition, only José Martí and George Lamming rival the range of Roopnaraine’s capacities of response, depth of analysis and subtle and mordant style."

Selected works

  • The Web of October: Rereading Martin Carter
  • Suite for Supriya
  • Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves
  • ''The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays''