Caryl Phillips

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Education

B.A. (Honours) The Queens College, Oxford University (1979)

Honorary Degrees

· Hon. D. Univ: Leeds Metropolitan University (1997)

· Hon. D. Univ: University of York (2003)

· Hon. D. Lett: University of Leeds (2003)

· Hon. D. Lett: University of the West Indies (2010)

· Hon. D. Lett: University of Edinburgh (2012)

· Docteur Honoris Causa: University of Liege, Belgium (2015)

· Hon. D.F.A: State University of New York at Albany (2024)

Teaching

· 2005 – present: Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, CT

· 2002 – 2005: Director of Initiatives in the Humanities, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

· 1998 – 2005: Professor of English and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

· 1997 – 98: Professor of English and Writer in Residence, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

· 1994 – 97: Professor of English, Writer in Residence, and Co–Director of Creative Writing Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

· 1992 – 94: Writer–in–Residence and Co–Director of Creative Writing Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

· 1990 – 92: Visiting Writer, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

· 1989: Writer–in–Residence, University of Stockholm, Sweden

· 1987: Writer–in–Residence, Literary Criterion Centre, University of Mysore, India

· 1980 – 82: Writer–in–Residence, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Factory Arts Centre, London

Visiting Positions

· 2023 Visiting Writer, Agnes Scott College, GA

· 2022: Visiting Writer, Bennington College, VT

· 2022: Blackburn Visiting Writer, Duke University, NC

· 2022: Gildersleeve Visiting Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University

· 2020: Visiting Writer, Claremont Colleges, CA

· 2020: Blackburn Visiting Writer, Duke University, NC

· 2019: Visiting Writer, Claremont Colleges, CA

· 2018: UNESCO City of Literature Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia, UK

· 2017: The Don and Judy McCormack Endowed Visiting Artist-Scholar Residency, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

· 2017: Visiting Professor, University of Liege, Belgium

· 2016: Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, University of Virginia

· 2015: Millett Writing Fellow, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

· 2013: Walton Visiting Writer in Fiction, University of Arkansas

· 2013: Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, University of South Florida

· 2009: Visiting Professor, Department of English, Oxford University, England

· 2008: Montgomery Fellow in Residence and Visiting Professor of English, Dartmouth College, NH

· 2005 – 2006: Visiting Professor of English and Weiss International Fellow in Literature and the Arts, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY

· 1999 and 2000: Visiting Professor in the Humanities, University of the West Indies, Barbados

· 1994: Writer-in-Residence, National Institute of Education, Singapore

· 1993 Fall: Visiting Professor of English, New York University, New York, NY

· 1992 and 1993: Visiting Writer, Humber College, Toronto, Canada

· 1991: Visiting Lecturer, University of Poznan, Poland

· 1990: Visiting Lecturer, University of Ghana, Ghana

· 1983 – 1995: Writing Instructor, Arvon Foundation, England

Courses Taught

at Yale University

· Literature of the Middle Passage

· Advanced Fiction

· Contemporary British Fiction

· The Colonial Encounter

at Barnard College

· British Fiction: Colonialism and Class

· Literature of the Middle Passage

· Writing and Society

· Fiction Writing

· Postcolonial Literature

at Amherst College

· Writing about Reading

· Advanced Composition

· Writing Fiction

· Writing, Writers, and Society

· British Fiction in the 1980's

· British Fiction: Colonialism, Class and Representation

courses taught elsewhere

· Post-Colonial Literature [Africa, Caribbean, Canada, India, and Australia]

· Caribbean Literature since 1945

· Writing for the Stage and Screen

· Fiction Writing [Workshop and Seminar form]

Publications

Fiction

· A VIEW OF THE EMPIRE AT SUNSET (2018)

· Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. USA

· Random House/Vintage. UK

· THE LOST CHILD (2015)

· Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. USA

· Oneworld. UK

· IN THE FALLING SNOW (2009)

· Harvill Secker. UK

· Knopf. USA

· DANCING IN THE DARK (2005)

· Secker and Warburg. UK

· Knopf. USA

· A DISTANT SHORE (2003)

· Secker and Warburg. UK

· Knopf. USA

· THE NATURE OF BLOOD (1997)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Knopf. USA

· CROSSING THE RIVER (1993)

· Bloomsbury. UK

· Knopf. USA (1994)

· CAMBRIDGE (1991)

· Bloomsbury. UK

· Knopf. USA (1992)

· HIGHER GROUND (1989)

· Viking. UK

· Viking. USA

· A STATE OF INDEPENDENCE (1986)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Farrar, Straus and Giroux. USA

· THE FINAL PASSAGE (1985)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Penguin. USA

Non fiction

· COLOUR ME ENGLISH (2011)

· Harvill Secker. UK

· The New Press. USA

· FOREIGNERS (2007)

· Harvill Secker. UK

· Knopf. USA

· A NEW WORLD ORDER (2001)

· Secker and Warburg. UK

· Vintage. USA

· THE ATLANTIC SOUND (2000)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Knopf. USA

· THE EUROPEAN TRIBE (1987)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Farrar, Straus and Giroux. USA

Anthologies

· THE RIGHT SET: A TENNIS ANTHOLOGY (1999) [Editor]

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Vintage. USA

· EXTRAVAGANT STRANGERS: A LITERATURE OF BELONGING (1997) [Editor]

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Vintage. USA

Plays

CARYL PHILLIPS: PLAYS ONE (2019)

Oberon Books UK/USA

STRANGE FRUIT (2019)

Oberon Books UK/USA

ROUGH CROSSINGS (2007)

Oberon Books. UK

· THE SHELTER (1984)

· Amber Lane Press. UK

· WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS (1982)

· Amber Lane Press. UK

· STRANGE FRUIT (1981)

· Amber Lane Press. UK

Radio Plays

RADIO PLAYS: BY CARYL PHILLIPS (Edited and Introduced by Benedicte Ledent). (2023)

· THE WASTED YEARS (1985) [In Best Radio Plays of 1984]

· Methuen. UK

Film

· THE MYSTIC MASSEUR (2001)

· Essays and Excerpts from the Screenplay

· Trinidad: Paria Publishing Company for Merchant Ivory Productions, 2001

· PLAYING AWAY (1987)

· Faber and Faber. UK

· Faber Inc. USA

Translation

Fiction and non–fiction translated into FRENCH, SWEDISH, DUTCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, LATVIAN, PORTUGESE, SPANISH, POLISH, GREEK, FINNISH, JAPANESE, TURKISH, KOREAN, CHINESE and SERBIAN.

Selected Articles and Interviews:

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Works Performed

Stage Premieres

· ROUGH CROSSINGS

· Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2007.

· Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 2007.

· Liverpool Playhouse, 2007.

· West Yorkshire Playhouse, 2007.

· THE SHELTER

· Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. 1983. (Subsequent productions in Birmingham, England; New York; Montreal; Paris and Accra, Ghana)

· WHERE THERE IS DARKNESS

· Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London. 1982.

· STRANGE FRUIT

· The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. 1980, The Factory Theatre, London 1982, Liverpool Playhouse, 1983, The Bush Theatre, London 2019

Film

· THE MYSTIC MASSEUR

· Merchant Ivory Productions, 2001

· PLAYING AWAY

· Film on 4, 1986

Television

Drama

· THE FINAL PASSAGE (2 x 90" films) Channel 4, 1996

· THE RECORD Channel 4, 1985

· LOST IN MUSIC BBC, 1984

· THE HOPE AND THE GLORY BBC, 1984

Documentaries – written and presented

· PROFILE: CHINUA ACHEBE – BBC4, 2003

· SOUTH BANK SHOW: CARYL PHILLIPS – ITV, April 2003

· DARKER THAN BLUE: CURTIS MAYFIELD BBC, 1995

· BOOKMARK (An interview with James Baldwin at 60) BBC, 1984

· BLACK ON BLACK (Ira Aldridge, the nineteenth century actor) LWT, 1983

· WELCOME TO BIRMINGHAM (USA), Central TV, 1983

Radio

Drama

· SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, 2016

· DINNER IN THE VILLAGE BBC Radio 4, 2011

· A LONG WAY FROM HOME BBC Radio 3, 2008

· HOTEL CRISTOBEL BBC Radio 3, 2005

· A KIND OF HOME: JAMES BALDWIN AT 60 BBC Radio 4, 2004

· WRITING FICTION BBC Radio 4, 1991

· THE PRINCE OF AFRICA BBC Radio 3, 1987

· CROSSING THE RIVER BBC Radio 3, 1985

· THE WASTED YEARS BBC Radio 4, 1984

Documentaries – written and presented

THE ESSAY (Philip Quaque and John Ocansey) BBC Radio 4, November 18th and 22nd, 2019

BOOK OF THE WEEK: THE 9/11 LETTERS BBC Radio 4, September 5, 2011

· I TOO AM AMERICA: SLAVERY IN NEW YORK CITY BBC Radio 4, April 24, 2004

· MARTIN LUTHER KING: 'I HAVE A DREAM' SPEECH (15–min talk) BBC Radio 4, August 2003

· FIFTY YEARS OF WEST INDIAN MIGRATION (5–min talk) BBC Radio 4,Today Programme, June 13, 1998.

· EXTRAVAGANT STRANGERS (5 x 25–min programmes: Interviews with William Boyd, Romesh Gunesekera,Linton Kwesi Johnson, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively) BBC Radio 3, May 1997

· THESE ISLANDS NOW: TRANSFORMATIONS IN BRITISH CULTURE ('Extravagant Strangers: The "Other" Voice in English Literature') BBC Radio 3, 1995

· THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA (6 x 30–min programmes: Interviews with Ron Brown, Jonnie Cochran, John Hope Franklin, David Levering Lewis, Rosa Parks, Paul Robeson Jr.) BBC Radio 4, 1995

· NO COMPLAINTS – JAMES BALDWIN AT 60 BBC Radio 4, 1985

· SPORT AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY BBC Radio 4, 1984

· ST. KITTS INDEPENDENCE (PRIDE OF PLACE) BBC Radio 4, 1983

Awards

· 2023: Prime Minister’s Legacy Award: Government of St Kitts and Nevis

· 2016: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist in Fiction for THE LOST CHILD

· 2013: Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence

· 2011: Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts

· 2007: Essence Literary Award Finalist for FOREIGNERS

· 2006: PEN/Open Book Award for DANCING IN THE DARK

· 2006: Honorary Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford University

· 2004: Caribbean American Heritage Award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature

· 2004: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist in Fiction for A DISTANT SHORE

· 2004: Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book for A DISTANT SHORE

· 2004: Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist for A DISTANT SHORE

· 2004: National Book Circle Critics Finalist in Fiction for A DISTANT SHORE

· 2003: The Booker Prize longlist for A DISTANT SHORE

· 2002: Mar Del Plata Film Festival, Argentina Silver Ombu for Best Screenplay THE MYSTIC MASSEUR

· 2002: Fellow at the Centre for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, New York

· 2000: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

· 1999: The University of the West Indies Humanities Scholar of the Year

· 1994: Lannan Literary Award

· 1994: James Tait Black Memorial Prize for CROSSING THE RIVER

· 1994: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency

· 1993: The Booker Prize shortlist for CROSSING THE RIVER

· 1992: The (London) Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year for CAMBRIDGE

· 1992: Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

· 1987: The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for THE EUROPEAN TRIBE

· 1985: Malcolm X Prize for Literature for THE FINAL PASSAGE

· 1984: BBC Giles Cooper Award "Best Radio Play of the Year" for THE WASTED YEARS

· 1984: The British Council Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship

· 1984: Arts Council of Great Britain Bursary in Drama

Positions Held

· 2021 Elected member of American Academy of Arts and Letters

· 2017 – present: Patron of Chapeltown Arts, Leeds, UK

· 2017 – present: Advisory Board, Cross/Cultures series, Brill Publishers, Netherlands

· 2016 – present: Patron – The Leeds Library, Leeds, U.K.

· 2012 – present: Founding Patron of the David Oluwale Memorial Association (DOMA)

· 2011 – present: Advisory Board of SMALL AXE, New York

· 2007: Writer in Residence, Het Beschrijf, Brussels, Belgium

· 2005 – 2009: Vice President, North American Network of Cities of Asylum

· 2003 – present: Advisory Board of BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES

· 2002 – 03: Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

· 2002 – present: Senior Adviser – Literature, The British Council, London

· 1996: Series Editor, FABER AND FABER, London

· 1996: Co–Producer, THE FINAL PASSAGE, Channel 4

· 1995 – present: Advisory Editor, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING, England

· 1995 – present: Advisory Editor, WASIFIRI MAGAZINE, London

· 1994: Director, HEARTLAND PRODUCTIONS LTD. [until 2000]

· 1994 – present: Consultant Editor, GRAYWOLF PRESS, Minneapolis

· 1993 – present: Contributing Editor, BOMB MAGAZINE, New York

· 1992: Consultant Editor, FABER INC. Boston [until 1994]

· 1989 – present: Board Member, THE CARIBBEAN WRITER, St. Croix, USVI

· 1988 – present: Honorary Senior Member, THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT, England

· 1985: Board Member, THE BUSH THEATRE, London [until 1989]

· 1985: Member of THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE Production Board [until 1988]

· 1982: Member of THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREAT BRITAIN DRAMA PANEL [until 1985]

Major Conferences and Festivals

2023: ‘Genealogies: The Writing of Caryl Phillips’: University of Liege, Belgium [Keynote Speaker]

2021: Hong Kong Literature Festival, Hong Kong

2020: Prosefest Literary Conference, Serbia

2020: William Matthews Lecture, Birkbeck College, University of London

2019: An Island Full of Voices: 35 years of Wasafiri, British Library, London, UK [Keynote Speaker)

2019: Get Up Stand Up Now Conference: Somerset House, London UK [Guest Speaker]

2019: Annual conference of Society for Caribbean Studies, University of Lancaster, UK [Keynote Speaker]

2019: BOCAS Literary Festival, Trinidad and Tobago2018: Bozar Afropean Conference, Brussels, Belgium [Keynote Speaker]

2018: Jean Rhys: Transmission Lines, Sorbonne University, Paris, France [Guest Speaker]

· 2018: Britain in the World: Day Symposium on the Writings of Caryl Phillips, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

· 2018: British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA [Keynote Speaker]

· 2018: Key West Literary Seminar, Key West, FL

· 2017: Stuart Hall Symposium, University of Oxford, UK [Guest Speaker]

· 2017: Black Arts International: Temporalities & Territories, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

· 2017: Wells Fargo Distinguished Lecture Series, CLAW: The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

· 2017: Inhabiting the voids of History: A conference on Caryl Phillips, Caen, France

· 2017: Susan Manning Lecture, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

· 2017: Petrou Lecture, University of Maryland, MD

· 2017: Forming Black Britain: Aesthetics, Itineraries, Diasporas, University of Maryland, MD [Keynote Speaker]

· 2017: Illuminating Lives: The Biographical Impulse in Postcolonial Literatures, University of Liege, Belgium [Keynote Speaker]

· 2016: The Folio Academy Sessions, The British Library, London, UK [Curator]

· 2016: Oluwale Now, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK [Keynote Speaker]

· 2016: The Caribbean Imaginary Lecture Series, New York University, NY

· 2016: The Durst Distinguished Lecture, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY

· 2015: Literary Leicester Festival, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

· 2015: International Festival of Authors, Toronto, Canada

· 2015: Forty Years After: Chinua Achebe and Africa in the Global Imagination, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

· 2015: Off the Shelf Festival, Sheffield, UK

· 2015: Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley, UK

· 2015: London Literature Festival, London, UK

· 2015: Lost Children: The Black Atlantic and Northern Britain – An Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

· 2015: Altered States: Configuring Madness in Caribbean Literature, University of Liege, Belgium [Keynote Speaker]

· 2015: Cambridge Literary Festival, Cambridge, UK

· 2014: Rupture, Crisis, Transformation: New Directions in US Studies at the end of the American Century, Birkbeck, University of London, UK [Keynote Speaker]

· 2014: Imagining and Imaging the Greater Caribbean, Inaugural Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY

· 2014: French Association of English Studies, Caen, France [Keynote Speaker]

· 2014: University of Central Lancashire Distinguished Visitor, Preston, UK

· 2014: Bocas Literary Festival, Trinidad and Tobago

· 2014: Venice International Literary Festival, Venice, Italy

· 2014: Oceans in Literary Imagination and Historical Consciousness, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates [Keynote Speaker]

· 2014: Graham Storey Lecture, Cambridge University, UK

· 2014: Nobel Lecture, National Cultural Centre, Castries, St. Lucia

· 2013: Afroeurope@ns IV: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe: Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception, University of London, London, UK [Keynote Speaker]

· 2013: Allen J. Koppenhaver Literary Lecture, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH

· 2013: Cities by the Water: Post-Colonial History and Participation of Newcomers, Vancouver, Canada [Keynote Speaker]

· 2013: 'What is Africa to Me Now?', University of Liege, Belgium [Plenary Speaker]

· 2012: Adelaide Writers' Week, Adelaide, Australia

· 2012: The Postcolonial City 2012: Re-evaluating the Postcolonial City, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK [Keynote Speaker]

· 2011: Reconfigurations: Remaking Narrative, Reinventing Genre in Postcolonial and Diasporic Writing and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK [Keynote Speaker]

· 2011: Singapore Writers Festival, Singapore

· 2011: American Writers Festival, Singapore Management University, Singapore [Keynote Speaker]

· 2011: Paraty International Literary Festival, Paraty, Brazil

· 2011: Time of the Writer International Writers Festival, The University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

· 2011: The Black Atlantic and the Biographical Turn: Slavery, Migration, and the Origins of the Modern World, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

· 2010: Pioneering the History of Black Britain: A Conference in Honor of James Walvin, Yale University, New Haven, CT [Organizer and Moderator]

· 2010: 'Off the Shelf' Festival of Writing and Reading, Sheffield, UK

· 2010: 'Something I Said?' Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

· 2010: Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester, UK

· 2010: Leicester O2 Academy, Leicester, UK

· 2010: Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, The University of the West Indies at St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

· 2010: Giornata in onore di Caryl Phillips, University of Calabria, Italy

· 2010: Resident Writer, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

· 2010: The Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes-Jelinek, Windsor, England, UK

· 2010: The Northcliffe Lectures in Literature: Writing in an Age of Terror, University College, London, UK

· 2009: SAMLA conference, Atlanta, GA [Keynote Speaker]

· 2009: Slavery and Literature Conference - Yale University, New Haven, CT

· 2008: EACLALS Conference – Venice, Italy [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: A Triangular Traffic: A Symposium on Literature, Slavery, and the Archive, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

· 2007: The Morrell Lecture, University of York

· 2007: Transatlantic Destinies, Dartmouth College, NH [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: Memory – Spaces – Cities – Images, SUNY Stony Book, Stony Brook, NY [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: Beyond Blackface: African Americans and American Mass Culture, 1880-1930, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: Royal and Shirley Durst Lecture, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY

· 2007: Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley, England

· 2007: European Perspectives on the Black Atlantic, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: "James Baldwin: Work, Life, Legacies" Queen Mary College, University of London [Keynote Speaker]

· 2007: Passa Porta Literary Festival, Brussels, Belgium (Writer-in-Residence)

· 2007: John La Rose Conference, South Bank Centre, London [Keynote speaker]

· 2006: Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland

· 2006: 25 Years of Writing – Caryl Phillips, University of Liège, Belgium [Keynote speaker]

· 2006: Fundamentalism and Literature, University of Münster, Germany [Keynote speaker]

· 2005: Africa '05: In Conversation with Chinua Achebe, South Bank Centre, London

· 2005: Sierra Leone National Book Awards, Freetown, Sierra Leone [Guest of Honour]

· 2005: The African Presence in Europe, Antwerp, Belgium [Keynote speaker]

· 2005: Necessary Journeys: An International Symposium about Artistic Journeys, Departures and Returns, London [Keynote speaker]

· 2005: Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver, Canada

· 2005: WordFest Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival, Calgary, Canada

· 2005: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

· 2005: Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley, England

· 2005: Sydney Writers Festival, Sydney, Australia (Times Literary Supplement Lecture)

· 2005: Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, Auckland, New Zealand

· 2005: Diasporic Dialogues: Race and Politics Across the Black Atlantic – University of Texas at Austin, TX

· 2005: Why Literature Matters – Yale University, New Haven, CT

· 2005: EACLALS Conference – Malta [Keynote speaker]

· 2003: Revisiting Slave Narratives – Montpellier, France

· 2003: Frontières – Paris, France [co-organizer]

· 2003: The Caribbean in New York and Paris – Bellagio, Italy [Conference organizer]

· 2002: Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt

· 2001: Voces del Caribe, Encuentro Internacional de Literatura, Madrid, Spain

· 2000: The Day of the Reader, Rotterdam, Holland

· 2000: Axial Writing Conference, Swansea, Wales [Keynote speaker]

· 2000: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

· 2000: L'Écriture Multicolore Conference – Paris, France [Co-chairman]

· 2000: Literature and Society in a Postcolonial World – Liege, Belgium [Keynote speaker]

· 2000: "Textports" Conference – Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool [Keynote speaker]

· 1999: Conference of New Literatures in English, Tubingen, Germany

· 1999: Conference in Honor of Maryse Condé, New York, NY [Keynote speaker]

· 1998: PEN 65th International Congress, Helsinki, Finland [Keynote speaker]

· 1998: Contemporary British Writing Seminar, Brussels, Belgium [Chairman]

· 1998: Arthur Ravenscroft Memorial Lecture, University of Leeds, England

· 1998: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1997: 20th Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland

· 1997: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1997: Contemporary British Writing Seminar, Brussels, Belgium [Chairman]

· 1997: Brighton Festival, Brighton, England

· 1996: Second Singapore Contemporary Literature Seminar, Singapore [Chairman]

· 1996: "The Caribbean Writer" Tenth Anniversary Conference, St Croix, USVI

· 1996: Contemporary British Writing Seminar, Brussels, Belgium [Chairman]

· 1995: First Singapore Contemporary Literature Seminar, Singapore [Chairman]

· 1995: In "Other" Words: Literature in a Changing Europe, Amsterdam, Holland

· 1995: Harbourfront Reading Series' Festival of Fiction, Toronto, Canada

· 1995: Perth Writer's Festival, Perth, Australia

· 1995: Contemporary British Writing Conference, Delhi, India

· 1995: Contemporary British Writing Seminar, Jaipur, India

· 1995: Walberberg British Writers Seminar, Cologne, Germany [Chairman]

· 1994: 19th Annual Chancellor's Conference on Composition and Literature, UCLA, Los Angeles, California [Keynote speaker]

· 1994: Vancouver International Writers Festival, Vancouver, Canada

· 1994: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1994: Paul Edwards Memorial Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

· 1994: Oxford Conference for the Book, Oxford, Mississippi

· 1994: Walberberg British Writers Seminar, Cologne, Germany [Chairman]

· 1993: Finland International Writers Conference, Lhati, Finland

· 1993: Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival, Hay-on-Wye, England

· 1993: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1992: Hull International Literature Festival, Hull, England [Resident Writer]

· 1991: New Nation International Writers Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa

· 1991: The International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada

· 1991: Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, England

· 1991: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1991: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

· 1990: New Zealand International Writers Festival, Wellington, New Zealand

· 1990: Adelaide Writers Festival, Adelaide, Australia

· 1990: Walberberg British Writers Seminar, Cologne, Germany

· 1989: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1989: Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies – Silver Jubilee Conference – University of Kent, Canterbury, England

· 1989: XIIth Annual Conference of German-Speaking Countries of the New Literatures in English, Giessen, Germany [Keynote speaker]

· 1988: British Council Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, England

· 1987: International Conference of Contemporary Writing in English, Freiburg, Germany

· 1987: British Writers Festival, Hamburg, Germany

· 1986: The International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront, Toronto, Canada

Major Reading Tours

· 2015: United States of America and United Kingdom

· 2010: United Kingdom

· 2007: United States of America and United Kingdom

· 2006: Sweden

· 2005: United States of America

· 2003: Italy

· 2002: Japan

· 2001: United Kingdom

· 2000: United States of America

· 1999: Germany – Belgium – Netherlands

· 1998: Germany

· 1997: United States of America

· 1997: Canada

· 1997: Germany

· 1997: Barbados

· 1996: Germany

· 1995: Australia

· 1994: United States of America

· 1994: Singapore

· 1994: Malaysia

· 1994: Indonesia

· 1994: Sri Lanka

· 1993: United States of America

· 1991: South Africa

· 1991: Germany

· 1991: Finland

· 1991: Jamaica – Barbados – Trinidad

· 1990: Sweden

· 1990: Ghana

· 1990: New Zealand

· 1990: Australia

· 1987: India

· 1986: Germany

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Readings/Appearances

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