- Robert Antoni
Robert Antoni (born 1958) is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction byThe Paris Review for "“My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head”".Background
Antoni was born in the
United States of Trinidadian parents and grew up largely in theBahamas , where his father practised medicine. He says his "fictional world" is "Corpus Christi", the invented island (based on Trinidad) that he introduced in his firstnovel , "Divina Trace" (1991).Education
Antoni studied at
Duke University and in thecreative writing programme atJohns Hopkins University before joining theIowa Writers' Workshop at theUniversity 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 theCommonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel in 1992.Antoni lived for a time inBarcelona and taught at theUniversity of Miami from 1992 to 2001. In 2004 he began teaching atBarnard College ,Columbia University .He currently resides in
New York City .Novels
*1991 – "
Divina Trace "
*1997 – "Blessed Is the Fruit "
*2000 – "My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales "
*2005 – "Carnival"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 "External links
* [http://www.robertantoni.com/ Robert Antoni's webpage]
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