Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, and he now lives in New York City. He is the editor of two anthologies, has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and he is the author of three works of non-fiction and eight novels. Crossing The River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992, Caryl Phillips was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His novel A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
His latest novel Dancing In The Dark was published in 2005 and will be released in paperback this October.
Awards:
2004: Caribbean American Heritage Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature
2004: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist in Fiction for A Distant Shore
2004: Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book for A Distant Shore
2004: Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist for A Distant Shore
2004: National Book Circle Critics Finalist in Fiction for A Distant Shore
2002: Mar Del Plata Film Festival, Argentina Silver Ombu for Best Screenplay for The Mystic Masseur
2002: Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
2000: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1999: The University of the West Indies Humanities Scholar of the Year
1994: Lannan Literary Award
1994: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River
1994: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency
1993: The Booker Prize shortlist for Crossing the River
1992: The (London) Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year for Cambridge
1992: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1987: The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for The European Tribe
1985: Malcolm X Prize for Literature for The Final Passage
1984: BBC Giles Cooper Award "Best Radio Play of the Year" for The Wasted Years
1984: The British Council Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship
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