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Peter "Lauchmonen" Kempadoo (born 1926) is a writer and broadcaster from Guyana. He has also worked as a development worker in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, but has mainly been based in the UK, where he first moved in 1953. ==Biography== He was born on a sugar estate to James Kempadoo, aka Lauchmonen, and Priscilla Alemeloo Tambran, both Tamils. Peter Kempadoo was educated first St. Joseph Anglican School, then went on at the age of 10, to attend Port Mourant Roman Catholic School. There he passed the Junior and Senior Cambridge examinations, before becoming a pupil-teacher at Port Mourant, and at 17, a certified teacher.〔(Petamber Persaud, "Peter Kempadoo - Preserving our literary heritage" ), ''Kyk-Over-Al'', 18 March 2006. (Source: Interview with Peter Kempadoo on Monday 13 March 2006, ''Guyana Chronicle'', Georgetown, Guyana.)〕 Moving in 1947 to Georgetown, he trained as a nurse at Georgetown Public Hospital, and reported on hospital matters for the ''Daily Argosy'' until he was invited to join the staff.〔 Having married in 1952, Kempadoo migrated the following year with his family to England, where he worked for the BBC.〔 During this time he wrote his first novel, ''Guiana Boy'', which was published in 1960 (re-issued as ''Guyana Boy'' by Peepal Tree Press in 2002), and was the first novel by a Guyanese of Indian descent.〔 It draws on his own life as the son of sugar workers to portray a world lacking in freedom, but where the workers struggle to maintain their identity as Madrassis in their rice plots, their fishing expeditions and in the feasts and festivities their ancestors brought from India. In addition to ''Guyana Boy'', he is the author of another novel, ''Old Thom's Harvest'' (1965). His work has been anthologised in ''The Sun's Eye'' and ''My Lovely Native Land''. He has also co-authored with his wife a booklet entitled ''A-Z of Guyanese Words''.〔 In 1970, Kempadoo returned with his family to Guyana, where he produced local radio programmes such as ''Rural Life Guyana'', ''We the People'', ''Our Kind of Folk'' and ''Jarai'' (with Marc Matthews).〔〔Rakesh Rampertab, ("Women Singers & Musicians of Grove" ), ''Horizons'', Issue 4, 2009, p. 43.〕 Kempadoo also lived for some years in Barbados, but has mainly been based in the UK. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Kempadoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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