Marlon james biography
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Marlon James
Emeritus Status, English
Creative Writing, fiction, post colonial literature, southern literature, Latin American fiction, criticism and blogs.
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970.
His novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize, making James the first Jamaican author to take home the U.K.’s most prestigious literary award. The novel also won the American Book award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Minnesota Book Award.
It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a New York Times Notable Book.
Marlon james biography
Professor James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and John Crow’s Devil. His next novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf will be published in February 2019.
Professor James graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Language and Literature and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Master’s Degree in creative writing.
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