Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist Caryl Phillips grew up in Leeds and studied English Literature at Oxford University. He began his writing career as a playwright; his plays include Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter. A prolific writer, Phillips is the author of 13 novels, 4 non-fiction books, and the editor of two anthologies. His work has been translated in over a dozen languages. Phillips has received numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council 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. 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 and an Honorary Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford University. Phillips has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India, and the United States. He is currently Professor of English at Yale University.
Please join us and Caryl Phillips for a discussion of his latest novel, Another Man in the Street.
