Marlon James
1970
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Jamaica
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of the West Indies, Wilkes University, Wolmer's Schools
award received: Booker Prize, Silver Musgrave Medal, American Book Awards, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction
official website: marlonjameswriter.com
Marlon James (born 24 November 1970) is a Jamaican writer. He is the author of five novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won him the 2015 Man Booker Prize, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), and Moon Witch, Spider King (2022). Now living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the U.S., James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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