Anne Walmsley

Anne Walmsley
Born1931 (age 92–93)
U.K.
Alma materDurham University; Sussex University
Occupations
  • Editor
  • scholar
  • critic
  • author
Known forSpecialist in Caribbean art and literature
Notable workThe Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992)
Art in the Caribbean (2010)
AwardsHenry Swanzy Award, 2018

Anne Walmsley (born 1931)[1] 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 widely recognised for her work as Longman's Caribbean publisher,[2] and for Caribbean books that she authored and edited. Her pioneering school anthology, The Sun's Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers (1968), drew on her use of local literary material while teaching in Jamaica. A participant in and chronicler of the Caribbean Artists Movement,[3][4] Walmsley is also the author of The Caribbean Artists Movement: A Literary and Cultural History, 1966–1971 (1992) and Art in the Caribbean (2010). She lives in London.[5]

  1. ^ "Walmsley, Anne, (b 1931), lecturer, artist and author". The National Archives.
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  4. ^ Bill Schwarz (ed.), West Indian Intellectuals in Britain, Manchester University Press, 2013.
  5. ^ "Anne Walmsley", Iniva.