Английская Википедия:Caryl Phillips

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist. Best known for his novels (for which he has won multiple awards), Phillips is often described as a Black Atlantic writer, since much of his fictional output is defined by its interest in, and searching exploration of, the experiences of peoples of the African diaspora in England, the Caribbean and the United States.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As well as writing, Phillips has worked as an academic at numerous institutions including Amherst College, Barnard College, and Yale University, where he has held the position of Professor of English since 2005.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Life

Caryl Phillips was born in St. Kitts to Malcolm and Lillian Phillips on 13 March 1958.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn When he was four months old, his family moved to England and settled in Leeds, Yorkshire.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1976, Phillips won a place at Queen's College, Oxford University, where he read English, graduating in 1979.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn While at Oxford, he directed numerous plays and spent his summers working as a stagehand at the Edinburgh Festival.Шаблон:Sfn On graduating, he moved to Edinburgh, where he lived for a year, on the dole, while writing his first play, Strange Fruit (1980), which was taken up and produced by the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Phillips subsequently moved to London, where he wrote two more playsШаблон:Snd Where There is Darkness (1982) and Shelter (1983)Шаблон:Snd that were staged at the Lyric Hammersmith.Шаблон:Sfn

At the age of 22, he visited St. Kitts for the first time since his family had left the island in 1958.Шаблон:Sfn The journey provided the inspiration for his first novel, The Final Passage, which was published five years later.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn After publishing his second book, A State of Independence (1986), Phillips went on a one-month journey around Europe, which resulted in his 1987 collection of essays The European Tribe.Шаблон:Sfn During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Phillips divided his time between England and St. Kitts while working on his novels Higher Ground (1989) and Cambridge (1991).Шаблон:Sfn At that time, Phillips was a member of the Black Bristol Writers Group, which helped to foster his creative writing.[1]

In 1990, Phillips took up a Visiting Writer post at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He remained at Amherst College for a further eight years, becoming the youngest English tenured professor in the US when he was promoted to that position in 1995.Шаблон:Sfn During this time, he wrote what is perhaps his best-known novel, Crossing the River (1993), which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.Шаблон:Sfn After taking up the position at Amherst, Phillips found himself doing "a sort of triangular thing" for a number of years, residing between England, St Kitts, and the U.S.Шаблон:Sfn

Finding this way of living both "incredibly exhausting" and "prohibitively expensive", Phillips ultimately decided to give up his residence in St. Kitts, though he says he still makes regular visits to the island.Шаблон:Sfn In 1998, he joined Barnard College, Columbia University, as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order.Шаблон:Sfn In 2005 he moved to Yale University, where he currently works as Professor of English.Шаблон:Sfn He was made an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2000, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2011.Шаблон:Sfn

Works and critical reception

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.[2] The Atlantic Sound has been compared to the travel writing in Looking for Transwonderland, by Nigerian writer Noo Saro-Wiwa.[3]

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.Шаблон:Citation needed

Phillips received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Dancing in the Dark in 2006.Шаблон:Citation needed

Activism

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Caryl Philips unveiling a Leeds Civic Trust Blue Plaque to David Oluwale, 25 April 2022

Phillips is the patron of the David Oluwale Memorial Association, which works to promote the memory of the death of David Oluwale, a Nigerian man in Leeds who was persecuted to death by the police.[4] On 25 April 2022 Phillips unveiled a Leeds Civic Trust blue plaque commemorating Oluwale's death, which was torn down hours later.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Essay collections

As editor

  • Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (Faber and Faber, 1997, Шаблон:ISBN)

Plays

Awards

References

Notes

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Sources

Further reading

External links

Шаблон:Wikiquote

Шаблон:Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book Winners

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. ↑ Woodward, Gerard, "The Lost Child by Caryl Phillips, book review: Wuthering Heights relived in post-war Britain", The Independent, 26 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  5. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ "A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris", Friday play, BBC Radio 4.
  7. ↑ "Hotel Cristobel", Drama on 3, BBC Radio 3.
  8. ↑ "A Long Way from Home", Drama on 3, BBC Radio 3.
  9. ↑ "A Long Way from Home, by Caryl Phillips", Drama on 3, BBC .
  10. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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