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Caryl Phillips, who is also the author of A Distant Shore and several other works of fiction and non-fiction, is a professor of English at Yale University. Image: Mariana Cook/Farrar, Straus and ...
More about the novel Cambridge, by Caryl Phillips. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound and self-destructive, while Emily is a morally-blind, genteel Englishwoman.
A Distant Shore. Set in contemporary England, A Distant Shore is the story of an African man and an English woman whose hidden lives, and worlds, are revealed in their fragile, fateful connection. Finalist for the 2003 PEN/Faulkner Award. The English village is a place where people come to lick their wounds. Dorothy has walked away from a bad ...
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Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. 1987; Faber and Faber (UK)
2004: Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist for A Distant Shore. 2004: National Book Circle Critics Finalist in Fiction for A Distant Shore. 2003: The Booker Prize longlist for A Distant Shore. 2002: Mar Del Plata Film Festival, Argentina Silver Ombu for Best Screenplay for The Mystic Masseur.
Feb 8, 2017 · Caryl Phillips is widely regarded as a leading contemporary writer, particularly in the field of postcolonial, transnational, and diasporic literature. Born in St Kitts in 1958, he was four months old when he migrated with his parents to England, where he grew up in Leeds.
