CARYL PHILLIPS
Vice President

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, England and now lives in New York City. He is the editor of two anthologies, has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema, and he is the author of three works of non-fiction and nine novels. Crossing the River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.

He has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. After being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992, Caryl Phillips was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers. His novel A Distant Shore won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers Prize; Dancing in the Dark won the 2006 PEN/Beyond the Margins Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He has taught at universities in Ghana, Sweden, Singapore, Barbados, India, and the United States, and in 1999 was the University of the West Indies Humanities Scholar of the Year. In 2002-3 he was a Fellow at the Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Formerly Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order at Columbia University, he is presently Professor of English at Yale University. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford University.

A regular contributor to The Guardian and The New Republic, his latest book Foreigners was published in October 2007.

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www.CarylPhillips.com