His work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
He is the editor of two anthologies: Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (1997) and The Right Set: An Anthology of Writing on Tennis (1999). His non-fiction: The European Tribe (1987), The Atlantic Sound (2000), A New World Order (2001), and Colour Me English (2011). His novels are: The Final Passage (1985), A State of Independence (1986), Higher Ground (1989), Cambridge (1991), Crossing the River (1993), The Nature of Blood (1997), A Distant Shore (2003), Dancing in the Dark (2005), Foreigners (2007), and In the Falling Snow (2009). He wrote the screenplay for the film Playing Away (1986) and his screenplay for the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S.Naipaul's The Mystic Masseur (2001) won the Silver Ombu for best screenplay at the Mar Del Plata film festival in Argentina. He has written many dramas and documentaries for radio and television, including, in 1996, the three-hour film of his own novel The Final Passage. He won the BBC Giles Cooper Award for Best Radio Play of the year with The Wasted Years (1984). He began writing for the theatre and his plays include Strange Fruit (1980), Where There is Darkness (1982) and The Shelter (1983). He grew up in Leeds, and studied English Literature at Oxford University. Kitts on this day in 1958." = Caryl Phillips was born in St.Kitts and came to Britain at the age of four months. Kitts-Nevis Times - "Please join us in wishing Caryl Phillips a happy birthday.
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