Author Robert Antoni to speak at Athens State University

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Guy McClure

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November 1, 2013
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Author Robert Antoni to speak at Athens State University

    ATHENS, Ala. - Acclaimed author Robert Antoni will speak at Athens State University on November 12 at 7:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Founders Hall.  The free event is sponsored by Athens State’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and the Livingston Concert Lecture Series.  It is open to the public.

    New Yorker Antoni is the author of five books:  Divina Trace, Blessed is the Fruit, My

Author Robert Antoni

Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, Carnival, and As Flies to Whatless Boys.  His fictional world is the British West Indies—the region’s characters, atmosphere, history, folklore, and above all its vernacular languages; it is informed by a pan-Caribbean consciousness of race, gender, religion, and class. 

    Antoni’s books have been widely translated, and have been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Commonwealth Writers Prize, and an NEA grant. His short fiction was selected as an Editor’s Choice, included in The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, and chosen for the Aga Kahn Prize by the Paris      Review. Antoni recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad and Tobago National Library.

    Antoni holds an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School University.
     For more information call 256-233-8296.

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