McWatt (Catch-22)
McWatt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cliff McWatt (1922–1997), West Indian cricketer * Mark McWatt (born 1947), Guyanese writer and educator *Tessa McWatt (born 1959), Guyanese-born Canadian writer *McWatt, fictional character in the novel ''Catch-22 ''Catch-22'' is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-c ...

Cliff McWatt
Clifford Aubrey McWatt (1 February 1922 – 20 July 1997) was a West Indian cricketer who played in six Tests in 1954 and 1955. A wicket-keeper and useful lower-order batsman, McWatt made 54 and 36 not out against England on his Test debut in the First Test in Kingston in 1953–54, sharing seventh-wicket partnerships of 88 in the first innings with Gerry Gomez and 90 (unbroken) in the second innings with Everton Weekes. West Indies won easily. He played all five Tests in that series. The next season, he replaced Alfred Binns for the Second Test against Australia before being replaced in turn by Clairmonte Depeiaza for the Third Test. He played for British Guiana from 1943–44 to 1956–57, and toured India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 1948–49 as the reserve wicket-keeper with the West Indian team. His highest first-class score was 128, for British Guiana against Trinidad in 1953–54. McWatt moved to Canada in 1986, where he died on 20 July 1997 as a result of a car crash.''Wis ...
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Mark McWatt
Mark McWatt (born 29 September 1947) is a Guyanese writer and former professor of English at University of the West Indies. Biography McWatt was born in Guyana, attending many schools throughout the country due to his father's position as a district officer. McWatt attended the University of Toronto (1966–70) and Leeds University, where he studied the works of Wilson Harris and completed a Ph.D. in 1975. He took a position at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados, as an assistant lecturer, then moved up to Professor of West Indian Literature in 1999, until retiring in 2007 as Professor Emeritus. He was founding editor, in 1986, of the ''Journal of West Indian Literature'' and published three collections of poetry, the second of which, ''The Language of Eldorado'' (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize. His first work of fiction, ''Suspended Sentences'', was the winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2006, as well as the Casa de las Américas Prize fo ...
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Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt FRSL is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer. She has written seven novels and is a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. In 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Early life McWatt was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and moved to Canada with her family when she was three years old. She was raised in Toronto, where her family embraced the Canadian outdoors through camping, skiing, and canoeing. As a child, McWatt was interested in music, sports, and literature. Even as a child she knew she wanted to be a writer. Education McWatt studied English literature at Queen's University and then earned her MA at the University of Toronto. Her MA focused on post-colonial literature and explored subject matter like how outsiders are perceived within society and how there are conflicting ideas regarding belonging. Career After university, she found employment as an editor and college instruc ...
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