Selected Interviews

"An Interview with Caryl Phillips"
The Bronte Society Gazette
Issue 74, January 2018.

Glynis Charlton interviews Caryl Phillips about his fascination with Emily Bronte and his contribution to the special exhibition, "Bronte 200: Making Thunder Roar."

2017

"The nature of empathy: An interview with Caryl Phillips"
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Volume 52, Issue 6, 2016.
Stephen Clingman interviews Caryl Phillips about his latest novel, The Lost Child.
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2012

"An Interview with Caryl Phillips"
Contemporary Literature
Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012, pp. 628-645.
Abigail Ward interviews Caryl Phillips.

"Caryl Phillips: Interview"
Mosaic: Literary Arts of the Diaspora
March 19, 2012
Caryl Phillips discusses his writing and his thoughts about literature with Clarence Reynolds.
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"The Narrative Is Not Written in Stone"
SX Salon: A Small Axe Literary Platform
February 25, 2012
Bastian Balthazar Becker interviews Caryl Phillips about his latest book, Color Me English.
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2011

"The Books Interview: Caryl Phillips"
New Statesman
August 22, 2011
Sophie Elmhirst interviews Caryl Phillips about his new book, Color Me English.
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"Discomfort zone: Author Caryl Phillips explores issues of multiculturalism"
The Times Union
July 11, 2011
Elizabeth Floyd Mair interviews Caryl Phillips about his new book, Color Me English.
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Interview with Caryl Phillips at FLIP: Paraty International Literary Festival
Paraty, Brazil
July 2011
Interview with Caryl Phillips at the Paraty International Literary Festival.
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"Caryl Phillips: The arts are the window through which we see ourselves"
Caribbean Beat
Issue 109 May/June 2011
The reflections of British-Caribbean writer Caryl Phillips, as told to Lisa Allen-Agostini.
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2010

"Small Talk: Caryl Phillips"
Financial Times
June 21, 2010
Interview with Anna Metcalfe.
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"Author Caryl Phillips in Residence at UMass-Amherst"
Amherst, MA (wfcr)
April 10, 2010
Author, playwright, screenwriter and teacher Caryl Phillips is in residence at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst this week. Details of his visit are at umass.edu/hfa/isha. Phillips spoke with WFCR's Bob Paquette. © Copyright 2011, wfcr
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2009

"Migrant Journeys: A Conversation with Caryl Phillips"
Atlantic Studies
December 2009
With Elvira Pulitano. This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Atlantic Studies © 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Atlantic Studies is available online.
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Conversations with Caryl Phillips
University Press of Mississippi
April 27, 2009
A collection of nineteen interviews conducted over more than two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Caribbean, edited by Renee T. Schatteman. Available for purchase at amazon.com.

2007

"Afroeuropa in Conversation with Caryl Phillips"
Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies
October 23, 2007
With Maya G. Vinuesa. In this interview, Caryl Phillips speaks about his narrative, his characters, his life, his vision of Afroeurope and much more....
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"Not Afraid of Ambiguity: Caryl Phillips in Interview with Axel Stahler, Bonn/Munster"
Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
September 2007
The interview was conducted at the fringe of an international conference on "Fundamentalism and Literature" at the University of Munster in November 2006, (organizer: Klaus Stierstorfer, co-convener: Axel Stahler) to which Caryl Phillips had been invited as keynote speaker.
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2000

Interview with Caryl Phillips"
ashcanrantings.com
October 2000
Caryl Phillips discusses his book, The Atlantic Sound, with Charles Rhyne.
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1995

"An Interview with Caryl Phillips: I am What I am Because I was Born There"
The Caribbean Writer
1995
The following interview was conducted by telephone on Dec. 15, 1994. Caryl Phillips was in Amherst, Massachusetts and Erika Waters was in St. Croix.
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1994

"Crisscrossing the River: An Interview with Caryl Phillips"
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
October 1994
Caryl Phillips discusses his novel, Crossing the River, with Carol Margaret Davison.
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1992

"Caryl Phillips"
BOMB
Winter 1992
Caryl Phillips discusses his novel, Cambridge, with Graham Swift.
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