Robert Antoni
| Robert Antoni | |
|---|---|
 Robert Antoni at the 2013 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 1958 |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Genres | novel |
| Notable award(s) | Commonwealth Writers Prize |
Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head. He is a Guggenheim Fellow for 2010 for his work on the historical novel As Flies to Whatless Boys.[citation needed]
Early life
Robert Antoni was born in the United States of Trinidadian parents and grew up largely in the Bahamas, where his father practised medicine. He says his "fictional world" is "Corpus Christi", the invented island (based on Trinidad) that he introduced in his first novel, Divina Trace (1991).[citation needed]
Antoni studied at Duke University and in the creative writing programme at Johns Hopkins University, before joining the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he began working on Divina Trace. He has said that he spent a total of ten years completing the novel, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel in 1992.[citation needed]
Career
Antoni lived for a time in Barcelona and taught at the University of Miami from 1992 to 2001. In 2004, he began teaching at Barnard College, Columbia University and The New School.[1] In 2010, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.[2]
He currently resides in New York City.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Novels
- Divina Trace, Robin Clark, 1991, ISBN 978-0-86072-136-9
- Blessed Is the Fruit, Henry Holt and Co., 1997, ISBN 978-0-8050-4925-1
- My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, 2000; Grove Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8021-3900-9
- Carnival, Black Cat, 2005,. ISBN 978-0-8021-7005-7
- As Flies to Whatless Boys. Akashic Books. 2013. pp. 154–. ISBN 978-1-61775-156-1.
Nonfiction
- 1998 "Another Day Under the Black Volcano" in Outside Magazine
- 1999 "Blackbeard Doesn't Come Here Anymore" in Outside Magazine
- 2001 "Party in the Islands" in Ocean Drive Magazine
Anthologies
- Robert Antoni, Bradford Morrow (eds), The Archipelago: New writing from and about the Caribbean, Bard College, 1996, ISBN 978-0-941964-43-2
Notes
References
- Richard Francis Patteson, The Fiction of Robert Antoni: Writing in the Estuary, University of the West Indies Press, 2010, ISBN 978-976-640-229-7
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