Caryl Phillips

Quick Facts

Full Name	Caryl Phillips
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Mar 13, 1958(1958-03-13)
Age	66
Country	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Birth City	Saint Kitts
Horoscope	Pisces

Caryl Phillips Biography

Caryl Phillips is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on March 13, 1958 in Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis. He visited St. Kitts at the age 22. This was the first time he had been there since 1958, when his family left the island. The trip inspired his first novel, The Final Passage. It was published five years later. Phillips published his second book A State of Independence (1986) and then went on a one month journey through Europe. This trip resulted in The European Tribe, his 1987 collection of essays. Phillips spent the 1980s and 1990s dividing his time between England, St. Kitts, and Cambridge while he worked on his novels Higher Ground (1989), and Cambridge (1991).

Phillips found this way of life both “incredibly exhausting” as well as prohibitively expensive. He eventually decided to leave St. Kitts. However, he said he still visits the island regularly. He was appointed the Henry R. Luce Professor for Migration and Social Order at Barnard College in 1998. He moved to Yale University in 2005, where he is currently Professor of English. In 2000, he was elected fellow of Royal Society of Literature. In 2011, he was elected fellow of Royal Society of Arts.

Phillips has tackled themes on the African slave trade from many angles, and his writing is concerned with issues of “origins, belongings and exclusion”, as noted by a reviewer of his 2015 novel The Lost Child. Phillips’s work has been recognised by numerous awards, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Crossing the River and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book award for A Distant Shore.

Phillips was appointed a Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1990. Phillips stayed at Amherst College for eight more years and was the youngest English tenured professor in the US when his promotion to that post in 1995. He also wrote Crossing the River (1993), his most famous novel. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tait Schwarz Memorial Prize. He was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Phillips was able to do “a kind of triangular thing” over a period of time after he took up Amherst’s position. He lived between England, St Kitts and the U.S. for several years.

Caryl Phillips Net Worth

Caryl Phillips is one of the richest Novelist from Saint Kitts and Nevis. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Caryl Phillips 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Caryl Phillips was the third child of Malcolm and Lillian Phillips, who were both born in St. Kitts. He was born on March 13, 1958. His family immigrated to England when he was just four months old and settled in Leeds (Yorkshire). Phillips was awarded a Queen’s College place at Oxford University in 1976. He graduated in 1979. He directed many plays while at Oxford and worked as a stagehand during the Edinburgh Festival. After graduating from Oxford, Phillips moved to Edinburgh where he spent a year on the streets while writing Strange Fruit (1980). This play was then taken up by the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Phillips later moved to London where he wrote Shelter (1983) and Where There Is Darkness (1982).

Caryl Phillips, a Kittitian-British playwright, novelist and essayist was born 13 March 1958. Phillips is best known for his novels, which have won numerous awards. He is also often called a Black Atlantic writer because much of his fiction is based on his interest in and exploration of the experiences of African diaspora peoples in England, the Caribbean, and the United States. Phillips is also an academic, having taught at Yale University, Barnard College and Amherst College. He has been Professor of English at Yale University since 2005.

Phillips received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Dancing in the Dark in 2006.

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Caryl Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Saint Kitts and Nevis. Caryl Phillips celebrates birthday on March 13 of every year.

What is Caryl Phillips famous for?

But Caryl Phillips is best-known as a novelist and has so far published eleven novels for which he received major awards. His work shows a deep sense of moral responsibility to the history that has produced him and which has all too often been silenced or at least only partially represented.

Where was Caryl Phillips born?

Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis

How many plays has Caryl Churchill written?

It is impossible to imagine the landscape of contemporary drama without Caryl Churchill, the author of more than 30 plays, a handful of adaptations, a clutch of radio plays. And what plays! Top Girls, Cloud Nine, Serious Money, A Number, Far Away, each a landmark in the history of our theatre culture.

Is Caryl Churchill related to Winston Churchill?

Though the playwright has frequently been quoted as saying she was ”infinitely, distantly” related to Sir Winston Churchill, she says she has no proof of such a relationship. Had Sir Winston met his namesake, he might have pigeonholed her, along with Russia, as ”a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ”

Who was Caryl Churchill?

Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes.