Born February 10, 1932, Mayaro, Trinidad.

Novelist / Journalist.

A relaxed and charming person, Anthony hides a great deal of power behind a quiet style. Educated in Trinidad, he has been living in San Fernando since 1970 as an official of the Ministry of Culture. Previously he lived in London (1955 and 1968) and for two years worked in Brazil.

Gerald Moore, in Contemporary Novelist, 1972, states: "The appearance of Anthony's first novel, The Games Were Coming, added a distinctive voice to West Indian fiction." But Anthony himself tells us that it was as a poet that he first tried to make his mark. It was apparently Vidia Naipaul, then editor of the BBC's Caribbean Voice Programme, who persuaded Anthony to give up verse; his attempts at prose were immediately successful.

He has written a number of short stories, although his novels are better known. The Year in San Fernando recalls some of his own early experiences when he worked for a rural family during his 12^th year. Perhaps Subramani's comment on Anthony's Green Days by the River can be applied, with slight differences of emphasis, to all his novels: "… an authentic imagination work rendered in a precise and deceptively simple prose…skillfully controlled, moves through apparently trivial incidents, towards a subtle climax."

Somewhat more tense than his other work is The Games Were Coming (1963), which is concerned, to put it baldly, with the tense and dedicated preparation of a champion for victory which takes its personal toll. Although Anthony lived in England for 14 years - he worked at Reuters, London from 1964-1968 - he himself says that he has never had any desire to write about England. What is more he did not even develop any of the unfortunate feelings of frustration and disturbance that sometimes bedevil "the writer in exile."

His most recent novel, Streets of Conflict, is set in Brazil.
 

Writings:
 

Novels:

• The Games Were Coming, London, Deutsch, 1963.
• The Year in San Fernando, London, Deutsch, 1965.
• Green Days by the River, London, Deutsch, 1967.
• Streets of Conflict, London, 1976.

Short Stories:

• Sandra Street and other stories, London, Heinemann Secondary Readers, 1973.
• Cricket in the Road, London, Deutsch, 1973.
• He has contributed to many anthologies and journals including: Caribbean Prose; Island Voices-Stories from the Caribbean; Response; The Sun's Eyes; West Indian Narrative; BIM; The Bajan.

General:

• Glimpses of Trinidad and Tobago: with a glance at the West Indies, Port of Spain, Columbus Publishers, 1974.

Tales:

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  Folk Tales and Fantasies, Port of Spain, Columbus Publishers, 1976.
   

Source: National Heritage Library