Caryl Phillips

Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
Finalist, 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction for A Distant Shore
Finalist, 2004 National Book Critics Circle in Fiction for A Distant Shore
Finalist, 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for A Distant Shore
Finalist, 2007 Essence Literary Award for Foreigners
Longlist, The Man Booker Prize for A Distant Shore
Winner, 2006 PEN Beyond Margins Award for Dancing in the Dark
Winner, Anthony N Sabga Carribean Award for Excellence
Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book for A Distant Shore

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging (The New Press). His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and his other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the New Republic. He is a professor of English at Yale University and lives in New York City.

Books by Caryl Phillips

Color Me English
Reflections on Migration and Belonging

Caryl Phillips