Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation

卡里尔·菲利普斯 (Caryl Phillips) 对疾风一代的快照

Meet the Writers

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2025-01-19

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Booker Prize shortlisted writer Caryl Phillips is one of contemporary literature’s master stylists. His latest novel, ‘Another Man in the Street’, chronicles a West Indian man’s journey to England as part of the Windrush Generation and his struggles therein. As we follow this engrossing emigre from Saint Kitts to London with dreams of becoming a journalist, Phillips paints a gritty landscape of 1960s Notting Hill and a vivid portrait of exile, resistance and belonging. He speaks to Georgina Godwin on his upbringing in Leeds, his connections to Saint Kitts and his thoughts on the treatment of the Windrush Generation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Hello, this is Meet the Writers.

  • I'm Georgina Godwin.

  • My guest today is a novelist, a playwright and an essayist.

  • He's currently teaching English at Yale University.

  • Born in St.

  • Kitts, he came to Britain and spent his childhood in Leeds before studying English literature at Oxford University.

  • He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the year in 1992 and was on the 93 granter list of Best of Young British Writers.

  • Writers.

  • Best of Young British Writers.

  • His work's been listed in the book, his work's been listed for the Booker Prize, and his literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a British Council Fellowship, plus many, many more.

  • He's a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts.

  • His new novel, Another man in the street, chronicles a man emigrating to England in the midst of the Windrush generation and follows his journey to London from St.

  • Kitts and the people he encounters in his life.

  • It's a no that provides perspective on the immigrant experience post war and a snapshot of Britain in time.

  • Carol Phillips, welcome to Meet the Writers.

  • Thank you.

  • May I call you Kaz?

  • You may.

  • I want to hear about your early life.

  • Do you remember being in St Kitts as a tiny child?