JAMES
MARLON
Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970.
His first novel, John Crow’s Devil (2005), received critical recognition and was nominated for several awards. His second novel, The Book of Night Women (2009), won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Marlon James’s third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), won the 2015 Man Booker Prize, the American Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and included in more than twenty “best books of the year” lists.
His later work, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2020), uniquely blends African myths and legends with fantasy and forms the first part of a trilogy continued by Moon Witch, Spider King and The Boy and the Dark Star.
His literary and non-literary writings have appeared in magazines such as Esquire and Granta. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Macalester College in Minnesota, USA.
