Gary Younge Meets Caryl Phillips

Gary Younge

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian, he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism. He has written six books, including, Dispatches From the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream and Who Are We?—And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? He has also written for The New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright and essayist, currently Professor of English at Yale University. Born in St Kitts, he came to Britain at four months old. He was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1992 and was on the 1993 Granta list of Best of Young British Writers.

His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a British Council Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award, and his work has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.