Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction Anthony Vahni Capildeo FRSL is Professor at the University of York and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Capildeo's interests include traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and place. Their poetry has been recognized with awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and the Saltire Award. Capildeo has guest-edited the Royal Society of Literature magazine and an ecopoetics issue of Stand magazine, as well as serving as a contributing editor at PN Review and the Caribbean Review of Books, and a contributing advisor at Blackbox Manifold. Masqueraders: Selected Essays is their most recent book.

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