Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies

MICHAEL ANTHONY

* 10-02-30 to 24-08-23 The Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies, and our wider Faculty of Humanities and Education, join the Caribbean region in mourning the loss of literary icon and historian Michael Anthony. He has left a respectable and enduring legacy as a fiction and nonfiction writer, and as an historian. His numerous publications have extensively documented the history of his home twin-island nation, Trinidad and Tobago, and his literary texts have been studied in the curricula of secondary schools by generations of readers. The Games Were Coming, Green Days by the River, The Year in San Fernando and Cricket in the Road are among the well-known and celebrated prose fiction in his impressive oeuvre.These resulted in Michael Anthony receiving a National Award—the Hummingbird Medal (Gold)—in 1979, and an honorary doctorate from The University of the West Indies (The UWI) in 2003.

In 2011, he was a special guest at Campus Literature Week, one of the flagship events at St. Augustine; was a visiting speaker in one of our literature classrooms, sharing his craft and experiences as a writer; and was later interviewed for the Literatures in English section’s podcast series The Spaces Between Words: Conversations with Writers https://audiomack.com/the-spaces-between-words/song/karen-sanderson-cole.... His contributions to history have uncovered invaluable details about our diverse heritage and accomplishments; and his literature are mirrored representations of childhood, youth, landscape, and culture with which we identify and from which we learn. We extend never-ending thanks and all-embracing appreciation to Michael Anthony, a national treasure.