Remarks delivered at the Tribute to Michael Anthony event, organised by the Friends of Mr Biswas and held at The National Library on July 5, 2023.When I had a column
Welcome to the latest instalment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival,
Michael Anthony’s novels and short stories never made an international splash like those of the late Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, but Anthony is arguably one of the most popular and most important writers to emerge from the Caribbean. His ability to expose rural Trinidad and present compelling stories with timeless themes of family, love and
Roydon Salick’s Mayaro Gold: The Fiction of Michael Anthony was published this month by Ian Randle Publishers. It is one of the books presented this year at the Bocas Lit Fest, taking place from April 28 to 30, in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Ken Ramchand describes the book as an “introductory study [that] understands well…