Michael Gilkes (writer)

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This article is about the writer. For the footballer, see Michael Gilkes.

Michael Gilkes (born in 1935, Guyana) taught at the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies in Barbados for many years and at the Sir Arthur Lewis community College in St. Lucia. He has recently been a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women’s College. He currently lives in Bermuda.

He is a distinguished Caribbean critic, dramatist and lecturer and more recently a film maker. His critical work includes his Wilson Harris and the Caribbean Novel (1975), The Literate Imagination (Ed.) (also on Harris) and The forthcoming West Indian novel Twayne. His play, Couvade, was published by Cape in 1974. A Pleasant Career, a play about the life and fiction of Edgar Mittelholzer, won the prestigious Guyana Prize for Drama in 1992.

Joanstown won the 2002 Guyana Prize for best book of poetry.