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Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Crossing the River (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1993) and A Distant Shore (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2004). Phillips has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN Open Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, as well as being named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 1992 and one of the Granta Best of Young British Writers 1993. He has also written for television, radio, theatre and film.
One of Britain's pre-eminent writers * Guardian * Distinguished novelist and essayist Phillips explores with rigor and artistry the ever-after effects of the toxic double-helix of racism and imperialism embodied in the African diaspora in the Caribbean, England, and America... A daring fictionalization... Hypnotic... Phillips' bravura, empathic, and unnerving performance makes the real-world achievement of his muse all the more surprising and significant -- Starred review * Booklist * Haunting... Phillips is at his best in this powerful evocation of Rhys's vision, which illuminates both her time and the present. -- Starred Review * Publishers Weekly * Phillips...brings his eloquent gifts for writing about those marginalised by race, colonial status and class to a fictionalised version of the story of novelist Jean Rhys... Devastating * BBC.com *
