Philipps caryl

The baby was brought by the family to Leeds . He studied English literature at Queen's College ( Oxford ), graduated in 1979 . In 1980, he first arrived in St. Kitts, since then he regularly visits the island. He taught at universities in Europe, USA, Africa. Since 1990 - at Amherst College , since 1998 - at Barnard College . He is currently a professor of English literature at Yale . His screenplay, The Mysterious Masseur ( 2001 , based on the novel of the same name by Naipol ) was named the best at the IFF in Mar del Plata ^[1] .

Novels

• The Last Transition / The Final Passage ( 1985 , TV movie 1996 )
• A State of Independence ( 1986 )
• Higher Ground ( 1989 )
• Cambridge ( 1991 )
• Across the River / Crossing the River ( 1993 , historical novel; British Commonwealth Writers Award, Booker Shortlist, The Best of the James Tait Black shortlist)
• The Nature of Blood ( 1997 )
• Far Shore / A Distant Shore ( 2003 , finalist PEN / Faulkner Award)
• Dance in the Dark ( 2005 , British Commonwealth Writers Award, James Tate Black Memorial Award, PEN / Open Book Award)
• Foreigners ( 2007 )
• In the Falling Snow ( 2009 )

Essays

• The European Tribe ( 1987 , Martin Luther King Memorial Award)
• The Atlantic Sound ( 2000 )
• A New World Order ( 2001 )
• Color Me English ( 2011 ) (USA Color Me English )

Pieces

• Strange Raft / Strange Fruit ( 1980 )
• Where There is Darkness ( 1982 )
• Shelter ( 1983 )
• Second House - James Baldwin in Paris / A Kind of Home - James Baldwin in Paris ( 2004 , radio play)
• Hotel Cristobel ( 2005 , radio play)
• The Long Way From Home / A Long Way from Home ( 2008 , radio play)

Honorary Member of Queen's College. Member of the Royal Literary Society ( 2000 ), Royal Society of Fine Arts ( 2011 ). The novels and essays of the writer are translated into many European languages.

• Ledent B. Caryl Phillips. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 2002
• Walters WW At home in diaspora: Black international writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
• Eckstein L. Re-membering the Black Atlantic: on the poetics and politics of literary memory. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2006.
• Thomas H. Caryl Phillips. Tavistock: Northcote House, 2007
• Ward AL Caryl Phillips, David Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar : representations of slavery. Manchester; New York: Manchester UP, 2011

• Official site
• Phillips, Caryl on the Internet Movie Database