Caryl Phillips is was born in St.Kitts and Nevis in 1958. when he was four months old he moved to Britain making him "Kittitian- Bristish". Phillips was a novelist, playwright and essayist who received education on English Literature from the University of Oxford (1979) and the University of Edinburgh (2012). After Phillips began theatre he wrote plays like Strange Fruit (1980), Where There is Darkness (1982), and The Shelter (1983). Caryl had also written many dramas and documentaries for radio and television / movies and screenplays like Playing AwAY (1986), The Merchant Ivory Adaptation of V.S Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur (2001). He taught at universities of Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India, and the United states. Phillips is pressently a lectuter at Yale University teaching English.
extracted from http://www.carylphillips.com/biography.html is a list of his novels and the years
His novels are: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991),Crossing the River (1993), The Nature of Blood (1997), A Distant Shore (2003), Dancing in the Dark (2005), Foreigners(2007), In the Falling Snow (2009), and The Lost Child (2015). His non-fiction: The European Tribe (1987), The Atlantic Sound (2000), A New World Order (2001), and Colour Me English (2011). He is the editor of two anthologies:Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997) and The Right Set: An Anthology of Writing on Tennis (1999). His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
he received various awards like BBC Cooper Award for The Wasted Years (1982) the best radio play of the year, UWI humanities scholar of the year
He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and Britain's oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, for Crossing the River which was also shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. A Distant Shore was longlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize, and won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize; Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Open Book Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts, and recipient of the 2013 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence.
