Caryl Phillips
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Caryl Phillips, 1958 - Author Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts on March 13, 1958. He received a B.A. with honors from Oxford University and soon after began his writing career. He is now professor at Yale University and a visiting professor at Barnard College of Columbia University. Phillips näytä lisää has received many awards and fellowships and was appointed to the post of chief editor of the Faber and Faber Caribbean writers' series. Phillips' writing explores the challenges of dealing with such divisions as race and heritage, and investigates how they were created in the first place. In "Cambridge," he presents his characters confused identities and frequently compares their personal histories and questions the process of how stories become known as history. He draws links between groups, like the Jews during the Holocaust or Victorian women, to make analogies for the West Indian situation. (Bowker Author Biography) Caryl Phillips is the author of seven previous books. He divides his time between New York City and London. (Publisher Provided) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset
Color Me English: Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11 (2011) 37 kappaletta
Caryl Phillips: Plays One: Strange Fruit; Where There is Darkness; The Shelter (Oberon Modern Playwrights) (2019) 2 kappaletta
Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin… (2023) 2 kappaletta
21 (BARNES) 1 kappale
Abschied von der Tropeninsel 1 kappale
Associated Works
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Avustaja — 301 kappaletta
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Avustaja — 116 kappaletta
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Avustaja — 67 kappaletta
21: 21 Picador Authors Celebrate 21 Years of International Writing (1993) — Avustaja — 53 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Phillips, Caryl
- Syntymäaika
- 1958-05-13
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- St. Kitts
- Asuinpaikat
- St. Kitts, West Indies (birth)
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
New York, New York, USA (current) - Ammatit
- author
professor (creative writing, Yale)
writer
professor (English, Amherst College) - Organisaatiot
- Royal Society of Literature
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1994)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
Booker Prize (2)
Palkinnot
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I love the way Phillips has woven history and fiction to give us such an accessible perspective on the African diaspora.
A bit heart-wrenching, but absolutely beautiful.