Ruel Johnson is an award winning Guyanese author.

Johnson won the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for best first fiction manuscript for a collection of short stories entitled Ariadne and Other Stories, which he self-published the following year with assistance from COURTS and GuyEnterprise. Johnson, then 22, was the youngest person ever to win the prize.

A former President's College

President's College

President's College is a senior secondary school located in Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, Guyana.-History:When it opened in 1985, it was the first boarding school in Guyana and the only secondary school to use a more comprehensive and selective application process...

 (Golden Grove

Golden Grove

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, Demerara

Demerara

Demerara was a region in South America in what is now Guyana that was colonised by the Dutch in 1611. The British invaded and captured the area in 1796...

/Mahaica, Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

, South America

South America

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) student who hails from Tucville Terrace, Greater Georgetown. He is the eldest of 5 and has one child, Aidan.