The winner of the Man Booker Prize was announced today; Marlon James won the award for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings.
I know
virtually nothing about this Jamaican writer, but a bit of research reveals
that he has written three novels: His
first novel, The Book of Night Women,
is about a slave woman's revolt in a Jamaican plantation in the early 19th
century. James's second novel, John Crow's Devil, tells the story of a
biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings,
explores several decades of Jamaican history and political instability through
the perspectives of many narrators.
I found
these two articles full of interesting information about the first Jamaican to
win this award: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34511049
and http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/world/americas/marlon-james-jamaican-novelist-wins-man-booker-prize.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&smtyp=cur&_r=0.
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