Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Award-winning Trinidadian author Robert Antoni will be featured during a March 9 public appearance at Mississippi State.
Antoni, who was born in Detroit, Mich., but raised in the Caribbean, will read from his latest novel "Carnival" and several other works of fiction. His 7 p.m. presentation in the Colvard Union small auditorium is the latest in the university English department's 2004-05 Visiting Writers Series.
Drawing on his upbringing, Antoni created the fictional island of Corpus Christi as the locale for his earlier works, "Divina Trace" (1991) and "My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales" (2001). "Carnival," which was released this month, is set in Trinidad.
"Divina" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize, as well as an honor from the National Endowment for the Arts. "Erotic Folktales" was selected for the 1999 Aga Khan best-fiction prize by the Paris Review.
Antoni holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University, a master's from Johns Hopkins University, and a master's and a doctorate from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He also is the author of "Blessed is the Fruit" (1997).
A former creative writing and Caribbean literature teacher at the University of Miami, he currently divides his time among New York, the Caribbean and Spain.
For more information on the program, telephone the English department at
(662) 325-3644.