Anthony c winkler biography meaning
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I write for the same reason I breathe—because I have to. As a son of Jamaica, I never wanted to do anything else but write. Yet the strange wasteland of retail dry goods stores and mercantile practicality in which I was raised was horrendously unforgiving of any of its wayward children whose ambitions were regarded as peculiar or different. Arrayed against my expressed ambition to write was a brace of uncles on my mother’s side of the family who regarded me as presumptuous or deranged. Many took me aside and flailed me with stern avuncular lectures on the need to renounce literature and embrace, instead, gabardine, calico and tweed. My only ally was an elderly frail uncle, the husband of my father's only sister, who stood doggedly at my side against this horde of Mongolian naysayers.
I have read some critics who lament the barren culture of the West Indies in which literary talent is planted and often malnourished. But I think this misses an important po
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Trust the Darkness: My Life as a Writer (Anthony C. Winkler Collection)
“How could I change an outcome that was set in concrete?... This meant plunging into the darkness...” Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler has been called "the unrivalled mästare of comic writing in the West Indies". Many readers regard his novel The Lunatic as among the funniest books in any language. Trust the Darkness tells the story of Winkler’s development as a writer, and much more. The “enigmatic Winkler”, as one reviewer called him, reveals a troubled childhood. Expelled from school in Montego Bay at the age of fifteen, he spent the next few years getting increasingly frustrated: Winkler knew that he wanted to finish school, and to be a writer, but the future looked dark. Then his mother sent him to the USA; and in that country, after years of deprivation, he gradually funnen the means to fulfil his ambitions.Over the years Winkler has learnt to trust the dark
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The Anthony C. Winkler Collection (flyer)
THE ANTHONY C.WINKLER COLLECTION “Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit, heart-stopping compassion, and jaw-dropping humour all at once Marlon James
Trust the Darkness My Life as a Writer “How could I change an outcome that was set in concrete? . . . This meant plunging into the darkness . . .”
ANTHONY C. WINKLER
TRUST THE DARKNESS My Life as a Writer
Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler has been called “the unrivalled master of comic writing in the West Indies”. Many readers regard his novel The Lunatic as among the funniest books in any language. Trust the Darkness tells the story of Winkler’s development as a writer, and much more. The “enigmatic Winkler”, as one reviewer called him, reveals a troubled childhood. Expelled from school in Montego Bay at the age of fifteen, he spent the next few years getting increasingly frustrated: Winkler knew that he wa