The UK scholar known for his writings on black cultural expression has won Norway’s Holberg Prize, as reported in The New York Times. Paul Gilroy is currently a professor of American and English literature at London’s Kings College. In 1982 he published The Empire Strikes Back: Race And Racism In 70s Britain, which was followed in 1987 by There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack: The Cultural Politics Of Race And Nation. His groundbreaking 1992 book The Black Atlantic: Modernity And Double Consciousness (Verso) transformed popular thinking and academic studies on the African diaspora.

The Holberg prize is six million Norwegian kroner, approximately £530,000.

To mark 2018's Windrush celebrations, Gilroy compiled a playlist of tracks for The Wire that highlight a distinct black British musical aesthetic over the last 70 years.