Anthony C. Winkler

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Anthony Clayton Winkler (born February 25, 1942 in Kingston , Jamaica , † September 18, 2015 in Atlanta , Georgia , United States ) was a Jamaican English-language writer .

Life

Winkler, a scion of immigrants from Sopron , Hungary , and Lebanon , grew up in Kingston until the age of eight, then in Montego Bay , St. James . He attended Excelsior High School in Kingston and Mt. Alvernia High School and Cornwall College in Montego Bay. The latter expelled him for refusing to undergo corporal punishment. He then worked for a while in the accounting department of various companies in Kingston. In 1962 he emigrated to the United States. There he attended the Citrus Community College, Glendora (California) , where he took the final exam in 1965. Then he studied English at California State University . In 1967 he received the academic degree Bachelor of Arts, 1968 the degree Master of Arts. After a short period of teaching at Pasadena City College, he returned home to Jamaica and worked - also briefly - as a teacher at Moneague Teachers College in Moneague near Ocho Rios , St. Ann , where he married Cathy in 1975, with the he settled in Atlanta (Georgia) in 1979 and became his "right hand" during the marriage.

In the United States, he began to make a name for himself as the author and co-author of textbooks on English grammar and rhetoric. While doing this work in 1973 he met Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell, a German, French and English-speaking teacher from the Glendale Community College in Glendale (California) who grew up in Europe and with whom he had worked for decades. Winkler died of Parkinson's disease at the age of 73 .

Works (selection)

Winkler's oeuvre comprises 9 novels or volumes with short stories, two scripts, a series of plays, two memoirs, a biography and a large number of non-fiction and textbooks in English:

Novels

  • The Painted Canoe (1986)
  • The Lunatic (1987)
  • The Great Yacht Race (1992)
  • The Duppy (1996)
  • The Annihilation of Fish And Other Stories (2004)
  • Dog War (2007)
  • Crocodile (2010)
  • God Carlos (2012)
  • The Family Mansion (Akashic Books, 2013)

Non-fiction

  • Bob Marley: My Son (2003)
  • Going Home to Teach (2006)
  • Trust the Darkness: My Life as a Writer (2008)

Textbooks

  • Readings for Writers (1974)
  • Rhetoric Made Plain (1978)
  • Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook (1979)
  • Writing: Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays (1981)
  • Exposition: Model Paragraphs and Essays (1982)
  • From Idea to Essay: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook (1983)
  • A Brief Introduction to Speech (1983)
  • Models For Expository Writing: Model Paragraphs And Essays (1985)
  • Rewriting Writing: A Rhetoric Reader and Handbook (1990)
  • Reading, Writing, And The Humanities (1991)
  • From Reading, Writing (1993)
  • Prentice Hall Pocket Guide for Writers (1994)
  • Writing Talk (1996)
  • Grammar Talk (1997)
  • Salvation By Langston Hughes (DVD): The Wadsworth Original Film Series In Literature (2003)
  • Writing Talk: Sentences and Paragraphs with Readings (2005)
  • Writing Talk: Paragraphs and Short Essays with Readings (2008)
  • Grammar Matters: Sentence Basics and Essential Grammar (2011)
  • New Mywritinglab with Pearson Etext - Standalone Access Card - For Grammar Matters (2012)
  • Grammar Matters Plus New Mywritinglab - Access Card Package (2012)

Awards

  • 1994: Musgrave medal in silver
  • 2014: Musgrave Medal in Gold
  • 2014: Townsend Prize

literature

  • Kim Robinson-Walcott: The Vision of Anthony C. Winkler: Lowly Negar Heroes and the Rule of Pum-Pum in a Lunatic Society . In: Caribbean Studies , Volume 27, No. 3/4, Extended Boundaries: 13th Conference on West Indian Literature (1994), pp. 417-422.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Books by Anthony C. Winkler ( English ) In: goodreads.com . Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ IOJ regrets the passing of celebrated Jamaican novelist, Anthony C. Winkler , article from September 22, 2015 in the portal jis.gov.jm (Institute of Jamaica)
  3. ↑ Parul Kapur Hinzen: News: Anthony C. Winkler wins biennial Townsend Prize for historical, satirical novel , article from April 26, 2014 in the artsatl.org portal
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Anthony C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winkler, Anthony Clayton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2015
Place of death Atlanta , Georgia, United States