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Greaves, Stanley
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born 1934
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Guyanese painter and writer, one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists. He works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. His collection of poems Horizons won the Guyana Prize for Literature in the first book of poems category. In addition to being a painter and writer, Greaves is an accomplished classical guitarist, having studied with Francisco Gonzalez of Cuba and Pam Frost of Barbados.