Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts Finalist, 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction for A Distant Shore Finalist, 2004 National Book Critics Circle in Fiction for A Distant Shore Finalist, 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for A Distant Shore Finalist, 2007 Essence Literary Award for Foreigners Longlist, The Man Booker Prize for A Distant Shore Winner, 2006 PEN Beyond Margins Award for Dancing in the Dark Winner, Anthony N Sabga Carribean Award for Excellence Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book for A Distant Shore
Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging (The New Press). His novel A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and his other awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of the Arts and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the New Republic. He is a professor of English at Yale University and lives in New York City.
