Divina Trace

{{short description|1991 novel by Robert Antoni}}

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| caption = First edition

| author = Robert Antoni

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| publisher = Robin Clark

| release_date = 1991

| media_type = Print (Hardback)

| pages = 426 pp (hardback edition)

| isbn = 0-86072-136-1

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| oclc= 28112058

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Divina Trace (1991) is an experimental novel by Robert Antoni. It won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first novel.{{cite web |url=http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |title=Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987–2007 |publisher=Commonwealth Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023223729/http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/uploads/documents/Regional%20Winners%201987-20071.pdf |archive-date=23 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Robert Antoni |url=https://literaryarts.brown.edu/writers-online/robert-antoni |website=Brown University |access-date=1 June 2025}} It also won a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.{{cite web |title=Robert Antoni |url=https://www.robertantoni.com/ |website=Robert Antoni |access-date=1 June 2025}}

The novel tells the story of the fictional island-nation of Corpus Christi coming into its own identity. The central narrator, Johnny Domingo, relays the story of the mysterious Magdalena and her frog child, as he hears it from seven different narrators, each speaking their own distinctly Caribbean dialect. It utilizes drawings, pictures, and even a mirror.