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On Fictional Celebrity
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Caryl Phillips
Caryl Phillips was born in Saint Kitts, West Indies in 1958. He grew up in Leeds and was educated at the University of Oxford. He has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of fourteen works of fiction and non-fiction. His book Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Man Booker prize. Phillips was the winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial prize. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark won the PEN Open Book Award in 2006. Colour Me English, a collection of essays which explore questions of identity and belonging, was published in 2011. His novel The Lost Child, a story of orphans and outcasts haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it, was published in 2015 and A View of the Empire at Sunset, about the writer Jean Rhys, was published in 2018. His forthcoming novel, Another Man in the Street, will be published in 2025. Phillips has taught at universities in Sweden, Singapore, India, Ghana, Barbados and the United States and is currently Professor of English at Yale University. He lives in North Carolina and New York.
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The Final Passage (1985)
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Caryl Phillips
Kittitian-British novelist (b. 1958)
Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional output is defined by its interest in, and searching exploration of, the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora in England, the Caribbean and the United States. As well as writing, Phillips has worked as an academic at numerous institutions including Amherst College, Barnard College, and Yale University, where he has held the position of Professor of English since 2005.
Life
[edit]Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts to Malcolm and Lillian Phillips on 13 March 1958. When he was four months old, his family moved to England and settled in Leeds, Yorkshire. In 1976, Phillips won a place at Queen's College, Oxford University, where he read English, graduating in 1979. While at Oxford, he directed numerous plays and spent his summers working as a stagehand at the Edinburgh Festival. On graduating, he moved to Edinburgh, where he lived for a year, on the dole, while writing his first play, Strange Fruit (1980), which was taken up and produced by the Crucible Theatre in Shef