Caryl Phillips, author portrait
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Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in England. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. His novel Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, and an earlier novel, A Distant Shore, won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently lives in New York.
In the Falling Snow
Foreigners
Dancing in the Dark
A Distant Shore
A New World Order
The Atlantic Sound
The European Tribe
The Right Set
Extravagant Strangers
The Nature of Blood
The Final Passage
Higher Ground
Crossing the River
A State of Independence
Cambridge

Books

In the Falling Snow
Foreigners
Dancing in the Dark
A Distant Shore
A New World Order
The Atlantic Sound
The European Tribe
The Right Set
Extravagant Strangers
The Nature of Blood
The Final Passage
Higher Ground
Crossing the River
A State of Independence
Cambridge

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