“Reimagining the Caribbean Legacy: Robert Antoni, Lorna Goodison, Caryl Phillips” will take place on November 10, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Americas Society, located at 680 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Admission is free for Americas Society members; $10 for non-members. [See link below to become an AS member. Many thanks to Jacqueline Bishop for sharing this news.]

Description: Renowned Caribbean authors Robert Antoni (As Flies to Whatless Boys), Lorna Goodison (From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island), and Caryl Phillips (The Lost Child), respectively from the United States/Bahamas, Jamaica, and St. Kitts/United Kingdom, will engage in a conversation that reflects on historical forebears, as well as currents and anticipated directions in Caribbean fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The three authors will also read selections from their latest works of literature. This event will be held in English.

Robert Antoni was born in 1958 and spent his formative years in Trinidad and Tobago, the Bahamas, and the United States. He is the author of five novels, including Divina Trace (1991, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales (2000), and the award-winning As Flies to Whatless Boys (2013). He teaches at Long Island University in Brooklyn.

Lorna Goodison (b. Kingston, Jamaica) is the author of numerous lauded poetry collections as well as the memoir From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (2007) and By Love Possessed: Stories (2012). Her most recent book of poems is Supplying Salt and Light (2013). She has received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, among other accolades. She lives in Vancouver.

Caryl Phillips (b. 1958, St. Kitts) is the author of numerous works in various genres, among them, the radio play The Wasted Years (1983) and Dinner in the Village(2011); the screenplay for the film adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur(2001); the essay collection Colour Me English (2011); and, most recently, the novel,The Lost Child (2015). His novel A Distant Shore (2003) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Crossing the River (1993) received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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