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Author Marlon James
Jamaican-born author Marlon James, winner of the Man Booker prize 2015, on his three novels including A Brief History of Seven Killings.
Martha Kearney talks to Jamaican-born author Marlon James. James has written three novels to date, John Crew鈥檚 Devil, The Book of Night Women and his latest book A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Man Booker prize in 2015. He discusses his work and how in his third he starts with an account of an attempted assassination of Bob Marley intertwining fact and fiction, documenting a violent era of political instability in Jamaican history.
(Photo: Author Marlon James poses with his award at the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 ceremony in London. Credit: Neil Hall/Getty Images)
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