Anne Walmsley

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Biography

Anne Walmsley is a British-born editor, scholar, critic and author, notable as a specialist in Caribbean art and literature, whose career spans five decades. She is the recipient of the 2018 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award. She is widely recognised for her work as Longman’s Caribbean publisher, and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited, including the landmark anthologies The Sun’s Eye and Facing the Sea. A participant in and chronicler of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Walmsley is also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010).

Awards

2018 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award

Years Attended

2012, 2012 Adult's Festival Participant

Anne Walmsley

Author, Publisher
UK
Events Featuring Anne Walmsley
2012
Anne Walmsley on Caribbean publishing in the 1970s
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
What is Caribbean art?: why we need art history
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station