Antonio Michael Downing

Saga Boy

My Life of Blackness and Becoming

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Singularly dazzling . . . A brilliant collage of the twenty-first century's most incredible memoirs." --KIESE LAYMON

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571311993
• ISBN-10: 1571311998
• Artikelnr.: 63243563

Autorenporträt

Antonio Michael Downing is an author, speaker, and musical artist. His memoir Saga Boy was called "singularly dazzling" by Kiese Laymon and "the triumph of Blackness everywhere" by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Ian Williams. He has been shortlisted for several awards including the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award, the 2021 Toronto Book Award, and the 2021 Speaker's Book Award. He is also the author of the children's picture book Stars in My Crown and his debut novel, Black Cherokee. He writes and performs music as John Orpheus. Raised in Trinidad, Toronto, and Brooklyn, Antonio Michael Downing now lives in Kitchener, Ontario.