264:"I am 55 years old. I have worked five days a week, 50 weeks a year, for over 30 years, as a novelist and poet. I set myself rather high standards: that unless the story is at once as unputdownable to a taxi driver as to a university professor, it is not good enough; that unless a novel is, at the end, quite clearly an epic poem, as well as a story, it is not good enough. My work has resulted in the publication of eight novels by 16 publishers, now adding up to 22 editions. At least something in my work has been praised by such readers as
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Sometimes critics have found flaws in my work and pointed them out: a title they didn't think was good, a character, a technique. Yet in my whole career I have never received a review that totally dismissed a novel – my characters, my plot, my scene-setting – until Thomas Cook's assessment of 'Love
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On the death of his father in 1951 Burland returned to
Bermuda and worked in the family construction company for five years. During this time he played with a black cricket team, "which raised eyebrows from blacks and whites... and gave him material for his novels." In 1956 he sold his interest in
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Gosling), and was one of four siblings. His was a privileged family background, but from an early age Brian was very conscious of
Bermuda's racial inequalities and empathised with black Bermudians: "An important figure in his early life was Sarah Hinson, his black Bermudian nanny who... appears in
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Bermudian government's Department of Community and Cultural Affairs established the Bermuda Literary Awards, and Burland won the Founder's Award and the prize for Children's and Young Adult Fiction. In 2007, the fiction award was renamed the Brian Burland Prize for Fiction.
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in his later life and spent his last years at
Westmeath Nursing Home and finally at Sylvia Richardson Care Facility. He died on 11 February 2010 at the age of 78. He was buried on 16 February 2010 at St. Paul's Church, Paget, following a Baháʼà memorial service at the church hall.
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Burland was married and divorced three times: to
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