Author of A Brief History of Seven Killings – a fictional account of an attempt to lift Bob Marley’s life – first Jamaican writer to win prestigious prizeMarlon James has become the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker prize,taking the award for an epic, uncompromising novel not for the faint of heart. It brims with shocking gang violence, or swearing,graphic sex, drug crime but also, or said the judges,a lot of laughs.
Visceral and uncompromising ... but it’s also an ingeniously structured feat of storytellingContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com