Caryl Phillips has written for television, radio, theatre and cinema and is the author of sixteen works of fiction and non-fiction. He has won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial prize and his book, Crossing the River, was shortlisted for the 1993 Man Booker prize and. A Distant Shore won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2004 and Dancing in the Dark won the PEN Open Book Award in 2006. Phillips’s latest