Brian Burland was a Bermudian writer, who was the author of nine acclaimed novels that typically dealt with colonialism, family strife and race.
11 Facts About Brian Burland
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Brian Berkeley Burland was born in Bermuda in 1931, to Gordon Burland and his wife Honor, and was one of four siblings.
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Brian Burland's family honoured his request to be buried next to her at St Paul's Church, Paget.
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Brian Burland began his education at Saltus Grammar School in Hamilton, Bermuda, before being sent to England in 1944 as a boarder to Aldenham School in Hertfordshire.
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Brian Burland subsequently attended the University of Western Ontario in Canada, where he took a graduate English course, but dropped out without graduating.
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Brian Burland's other published novels are Surprise, Stephen Decatur, the Devil and the Endymion, Flight of the Cavalier and Love is a Durable Fire.
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Brian Burland's papers include the manuscripts of five as yet unpublished novels.
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Brian Burland's novels were generally well reviewed in publications including The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The Times in London, the New Statesman and The New York Times, being praised by the likes of novelist Anthony Burgess, playwright David Rabe and actor Sir Ralph Richardson.
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Brian Burland suffered from Huntington's disease in his later life and spent his last years at Westmeath Nursing Home and finally at Sylvia Richardson Care Facility.
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Brian Burland died on 11 February 2010 at the age of 78.
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In 2001, the Bermudian government's Department of Community and Cultural Affairs established the Bermuda Literary Awards, and Brian Burland won the Founder's Award and the prize for Children's and Young Adult Fiction.