Phillips was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

He is the editor of two anthologies: Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997) and The Right Set: An Anthology of Writing on Tennis (1999). His nonfiction: The European Tribe (1987), The Atlantic Sound (2000), A New World Order (2001), and Colour Me English (2011). His novels are The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993), The Nature of Blood (1997), A Distant Shore (2003), Dancing in the Dark (2005), Foreigners (2007), In the Falling Snow (2009), and The Lost Child (2015). Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur (2001) won the Silver Ombu for best screenplay at the Mar Del Plata film festival in Argentina. He wrote the screenplay for the film Playing Away (1986), and his screenplay for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S.

He has written many dramas and documentaries for radio and television, including, in 1996, the three-hour film of his own novel The Final Passage. He won the BBC Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play of the year with The Wasted Years (1984). He began writing for the theatre, and his plays include Strange Fruit (1980), Where There is Darkness (1982) and The Shelter (1983). He grew up in Leeds and studied English Literature at Oxford University. The lecture will be April 21 at 5:00 PM, also in the Special Collections Auditorium.Ĭaryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and came to Britain at four months. His reading will take place April 14 at 5:00 PM, in the Special Collections Auditorium, followed by a reception. He will deliver a reading, lecture, and masterclass, as well as holding one-on-one conferences with select undergraduate and graduate students. The English Department will welcome Caryl Phillips, the 2016 Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, to Grounds April 11 to 22.

Higher Ground by Caryl Phillips