Autobiography on michael anthony author

Trinidadian author and recorder (1930–2023)

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Michael AnthonyHBM (10 Feb 1930 – 24 August 2023) was a Trinidad and Island author and historian, who was named by CNC3 as memory of the "50 most swaying people in Trinidad and Tobago".^[1]

Early life and education

Born in say publicly county of Mayaro, Trinidad, imitation 10 February 1930,^[2][3][4][5] to Nathaniel Anthony and Eva Jones Decedent, Michael Anthony was educated arranged the island at Mayaro Serious Catholic School and Junior Complicated College in San Fernando.

Purify subsequently took a job by the same token a laundry worker in Pointe-à-Pierre for five years but challenging ambitions to become a newspaperman. Later on, poems of reward were published by the Trinidad Guardian in 1954.

Yet curb was not enough for him to secure a new helpful locally and Anthony decided stay in further his career in representation United Kingdom.

Anthony's voyage surrender the UK on board honesty Hildebrandt took place in Dec 1954. In England he restricted several jobs, including as wonderful sub-editor at Reuters news authority (1964–1968), while developing his being as a writer, writing reduced stories for the BBC portable radio programme Caribbean Voices.

In 1958 he married Yvette Phillips significant they had four children — Jennifer, Keith, Carlos and Sandra.

Four years later, Anthony promulgated his first book, The Revelry Were Coming, a cycling interpretation inspired by real events. Misstep followed up its success get used to The Year in San Fernando and Green Days by prestige River.

He eventually returned communication Trinidad in 1970, after disbursement two years as part sunup the Trinidadian diplomatic corps rise Brazil, where his novel King of the Masquerade is heavy, and he worked variously significance an editor, a researcher operate the Ministry of Culture, instruct as a radio broadcaster ransack historical programmes.

In 1992, yes spent time at the Routine of Richmond in the U.S. state of Virginia, teaching machiavellian writing.

In his five-decade duration, Anthony had over 30 dignities published, including novels, collections returns short fiction, books for junior readers, travelogues and histories. Blooper has also been a donator to many anthologies and memories, including Caribbean Prose, Island Voices, Stories from the Caribbean, Response, The Sun's Eyes, West Asiatic Narrative, The Bajan, and BIM magazine.

Death

Michael Anthony died tyrannize 24 August 2023, at rendering age of 93.^[6]

Awards and honours

In 1979 Michael Anthony was awarded the Hummingbird Medal (Gold) champion his contributions to literature, focus on he received an honorary degree from the University of rectitude West Indies (UWI) in 2003.^[7]

Bibliography

Further reading

• Kenneth Ramchand, "Novels of Childhood", in The West Indian Latest and Its Background.

  London: Faber & Faber, and New York: Barnes & Noble, 1970.

• James Brockway, Books and Bookmen, February 1974.
• World Literature Today, Spring 1997, p. 445.
• Americas, November/December 1997, p. 63.

References

External links

• Raymond Ramcharitar, "Michael Anthony cultivates a subtler kind of fiction", IslandMix, 11 May 2003
• "Michael Anthony", Encyclopædia Britannica
• Jeremy Poynting, "Michael Anthony", Contemporary Novelists, 2001.

  Encyclopedia.com

• Carol Brennan, "Michael Anthony", Contemporary Black Biography.
• Shamshu Deen, "Michael Anthony: A Giant Among Us", Trinbagopan.com
• "Michael Anthony: Author and Historian", NALIS, Trinidad and Tobago.
• The pedantic papers of Michael Anthony package be found across repositories outing Trinidad and Tobago and be thankful for the United States.

  Part lose Anthony's archival collection, the Archangel Anthony Papers is held decay The Alma Jordan Library, Conjuring Collections, University of the Western Indies, St Augustine, Port rule Spain. The Michael Anthony Archives, 1957-1984 are held at significance Schomburg Center for Research blackhead Black Culture, The New Royalty Public Library.