Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is a professor of English at Yale. He is the author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship – Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A Distant Shore was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Dancing in the Dark won the PEN/Open Book Award. He has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India and the United Kingdom. Formerly Henry R. Luce Professor Migration and Social Order at Columbia University in New York, he is an honorary fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford University, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.