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Caryl Phillips
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Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts, brought up in Leeds, 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 eight novels. Crossing The River was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and 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. |
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Something to Declare: Celebrating Writers of Color
 When: Monday, October 16, 2006
Where: Donnell Library Center: 20 West 53rd St., NYC
What Time: 7 p.m.
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