Michael Gilkes

Michael Gilkes was born on 5 November 1933 in Georgetown and came to the theatre at about twelve, on school stages, then at the Guyana Theatre Guild. He taught for forty years in universities in the Caribbean, Canada and the United Kingdom, and headed the English department at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. A critic, he devoted several books to Wilson Harris and the West Indian novel, and also made films. He twice received the Guyana Prize for Literature for drama and once for poetry, and died in London in 2020.

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• TheatreCouvade: A Dream-Play of GuyanaMichael Gilkes · 1972Literature