Ryan Ba­choo

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

Renowned writer and his­to­ri­an, Michael An­tho­ny, has passed away at the age of 91. He was once named one of the 50 most in­flu­en­tial peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

His fam­i­ly con­firmed in a state­ment, "It is with pro­found sad­ness that we an­nounce the death of our beloved fa­ther, who passed away peace­ful­ly last night at home sur­round­ed by his fam­i­ly."

The state­ment con­tin­ued, "Michael was an icon and a gi­ant in the lit­er­ary world and his lega­cy is deeply wo­ven in­to the ta­pes­try of our na­tion, which he loved so dear­ly. Above all, Michael was an ador­ing hus­band, fa­ther and grand­fa­ther and we will miss him deeply. We thank you for your well wish­es, and we kind­ly ask for pri­va­cy dur­ing this dif­fi­cult time."

The Ma­yaro-born au­thor script­ed nov­els and short sto­ries about do­mes­tic life in his home­land of Trinidad.

The Year in San Fer­nan­do is one of his most promi­nent works. His first nov­el, The Games Were Com­ing pub­lished in 1963, is the sto­ry of Leon, an as­cetic young bi­cy­clist who ne­glects the an­nu­al car­ni­val in or­der to train for an up­com­ing race.

In the mid-1950s, he worked at the Reuters News Agency.

In 1979 he was award­ed the Hum­ming­bird Gold Medal for his con­tri­bu­tion to lit­er­a­ture, in 2003 he re­ceived an hon­orary doc­tor­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, and in 2012 was award­ed a NALIS Life­time Lit­er­ary Award.