Michael Gilkes (writer)
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Michael Gilkes is a Caribbean
critic, dramatist, filmmaker and university lecturer. He has been involved in theater for over 40 years. He currently resides in Bermuda
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, the University of the West Indies
(where he served as Reader in English and Head of the English department) in Barbados
and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
in St. Lucia. He is currently a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women’s College.
His work includes Couvade (play, 1974), Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel (1975), The Literate Imagination (1989) and Twayne.
, won the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992. Joanstown and other poems, a collection of poetry, won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. He won the Guyana Prize for Drama again in 2006 for his play The Last of the Redmen.
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
critic, dramatist, filmmaker and university lecturer. He has been involved in theater for over 40 years. He currently resides in Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
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Biography
He previously taught at the University of GuyanaUniversity of Guyana
The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana is a public university established in 1963 by the Guyanese government.-History:Cheddi Jagan, then Premier of British Guiana considered that the University of the West Indies, to which his government had contributed since 1948, was not meeting the...
, the University of the West Indies
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies , is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 17 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica,...
(where he served as Reader in English and Head of the English department) in Barbados
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is the only community college of Saint Lucia. The college is named after Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate Sir Arthur Lewis....
in St. Lucia. He is currently a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women’s College.
His work includes Couvade (play, 1974), Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel (1975), The Literate Imagination (1989) and Twayne.
Awards
His play, A Pleasant Career, about the life and fiction of Edgar MittelholzerEdgar Mittelholzer
Edgar Mittelholzer was a Guyanese novelist. Born in New Amsterdam, the country's second largest town, he was the son of William Austin Mittelholzer and his wife Rosamond Mabel, née Leblanc...
, won the Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992. Joanstown and other poems, a collection of poetry, won the Guyana Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2002. He won the Guyana Prize for Drama again in 2006 for his play The Last of the Redmen.