It follows the separate stories of two brothers and a sister from slavery to a dislocated emancipation. Crossing the River (1993) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. The book won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Cambridge (1991), his fourth novel, is set in the first half of the nineteenth century and centres on the experiences of a young Englishwoman visiting her father's plantation in the Caribbean. Higher Ground (1989) consists of three narratives linking the lives of a West African slave, a member of the Black Panther movement and a Polish immigrant living in post-war Britain. His second novel, A State of Independence (1986), is set in the Caribbean and explores the islands' growing dependency on America. It tells the story of a young woman who leaves her home in the Caribbean to start a new life with her husband and baby in 1950s London.
The Final Passage (1985), his first novel, won the Malcolm X Prize for Literature. Much of his writing - both fiction and non-fiction - has focused on the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences for the African Diaspora. He is the author of six novels, several books of non-fiction and has written for film, theatre, radio and television. He grew up in Leeds, England, and read English at Queen's College, Oxford. Caryl Phillips was born on 13 March 1958 on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.
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