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1	Anthony C. Winkler (25 February 1942 – 18 September 2015) was a Jamaican-born author, lecturer, freelance writer, playwright and screenwriter.
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3	Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he attended school in Kingston and then in Montego Bay, St. James, and later received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English at California State University in Los Angeles.
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5	His fiction writing's settings are always in Jamaica, though the exact locations and the characters who live in them differ with each plot. Each story paints a picture of Jamaica during the time period in which the story is set, and illustrates the various social, racial and class divides that exist(ed) among Jamaica's people, particularly between the 1950s and 1970s.
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7	Among his most well-known works:
8	* ''Literature/ThePaintedCanoe'' (1984)
9	* ''Literature/TheLunatic'' (1987), which spawned a [[TheFilmOfTheBook film]] in 1991 starring Paul Campbell and Carl Bradshaw
10	* ''Literature/TheGreatYachtRace'' (1992)
11	* ''The Burglary,'' a play produced in Jamaica in 1993 and in Toronto in 2005
12	* ''Literature/GoingHomeToTeach'' (1995), an autobiographical account of a year he spent teaching at a teacher-training college in Jamaica
13	* ''LIterature/TheDuppy'' (1997)
14	* ''The Annihilation of Fish'' (1999), a screenplay filmed in Los Angeles and starring Creator/JamesEarlJones and Creator/MargotKidder
15	* ''The Annihilation of Fish and Other Stories'' (2004), a short story collection
16	* ''Literature/DogWar'' (2006)
17	* ''Crocodile'' (2009)
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19	!!Common tropes in Anthony Winkler's works:
20	* AbusiveParents
21	* AllMenArePerverts: Most of the male characters are portrayed to have this mindset.
22	* AxCrazy: Those who suffer from madness in his stories, whether they are main characters or not. In ''Literature/TheLunatic'' it's played for laughs.
23	* BadBoss
24	* BigEater
25	* BigFancyHouse
26	* BiggerIsBetterInBed
27	* ButtMonkey: Winkler has these in his stories too, mostly consisting of men whose wives or girlfriends beat them up regularly. Precious, the main character in ''Dog War'', counts as a female example.
28	* CharacterDevelopment: Most of Winkler's characters get this in some form. The best example is Baps in ''The Duppy.''
29	* ChristianityIsCatholic: Played straight with certain individual characters, although other Christian denominations are acknowledged and sometimes [[TakeThat jabbed at]].
30	* ComedicSociopathy
31	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Several characters across Winkler's works.
32	* DeadpanSnarker: At least one in every story.
33	* TheDeterminator: Winkler's protagonists are often this.
34	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale
35	* FlatEarthAtheist: The doctor in ''Literature/ThePaintedCanoe,'' Inga in ''Literature/TheLunatic,'' and the philosopher in ''Literature/TheDuppy'' are examples.
36	* HappilyMarried: A number of his characters.
37	* JerkAss: Winkler makes sure, for the most part, that these characters are VERY unlikeable, both in-story and by the reader.
38	* KidsAreCruel
39	* MamaBear: Mothers who aren't AbusiveParents will often be this. On the men's side, Zachariah in ''The Painted Canoe'' is a PapaWolf.
40	* ManlyTears: Zachariah in ''The Painted Canoe'' and Aloysius in ''The Lunatic'' are capable of this.
41	* ParentalAbandonment: At least one character in each of Winkler's books will have had parents who ditched them during their childhoods.
42	* PastExperienceNightmare
43	* PrecisionFStrike: Winkler's books aren't exactly meant for children. That being said, while conventional swear-words are used, Winkler also utilizes Jamaican swear-words in his books' narratives, a common one being "bumbo."
44	* RapeAsBackstory
45	* RealLifeWritesThePlot
46	* RuleOfFunny: ''The Lunatic'', ''Dog War'', and ''The Duppy'' in particular run on this.
47	* {{Tsundere}}: Carina in ''The Painted Canoe,'' Inga in ''The Lunatic,'' and Roxanne in ''The Great Yacht Race'' are examples.

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