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Man Booker prize 2015

October 2020

  • Marlon James

    Reading group
    Reading group: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James is our October book

    Its huge cast and range of styles has not stopped this study of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley winning global acclaim. I think we’ll enjoy it, too

February 2019

  • Author Marlon James photographed at White Balance Studios in Brooklyn, NYC for the Observer New Review by Mike McGregor Feb 2019

    Marlon James: ‘You have to risk going too far’

    In 2015, James became the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker. His new novel is a hotly anticipated African fantasy epic and here he talks about loving the X-Men, coming out and writing about violence

January 2016

  • Chigozie Obioma and other Nigerian students in 2007

    Chigozie Obioma: the ghosts of my student years in northern Cyprus

    When the Booker nominee arrived at a European university, he found many fellow Nigerian students had been duped into enrolling. And for some, that was only the beginning of their troubles...

December 2015

  • Marlon James, the Jamaican novelist, has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for "A Brief History of Seven Killings," his fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Photograph by Felix Clay

    The Guardian Books podcast
    An evening with Marlon James - books podcast

    Gangs, gay sex and pandering to the white woman. Man Booker prize winner Marlon James talks to Guardian books editor, Claire Armitstead, and answers audience questions at a Guardian Live event on A Brief History of Seven Killings

November 2015

  • Marlon James, the Jamaican novelist, has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for "A Brief History of Seven Killings," his fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Photograph by Felix Clay

    Marlon James: 'Writers of colour pander to the white woman'

    The 2015 Man Booker winner has blasted the publishing industry for pressuring authors to write ‘astringent prose set in suburbia’ for an ‘archetype of the white woman’

16 October 2015

  • The writer Marlon James

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Marlon James on his Booker-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings – books podcast

  • Man Booker prize winner Marlon James.

    Marlon James's Booker win celebrated by Jamaican authors

15 October 2015

  • Author Marlon James, who won the 2015 Man Booker Prize this week, was rejected almost 80 times when searching for a publisher for his first book in 2005: ‘I had to sit down and add it up one day and I had no idea it was that much.’

    Great books that publishers rejected – quiz

    Man Booker winner Marlon James says he was turned down 78 times before getting published. Find out how much you know about the history of literary rebuffs with our quiz

14 October 2015

  • Kei Miller

    Marlon James’ Man Booker prize heralds a new Caribbean era

    Kei Miller
    The award for A Brief History of Seven Killings is a sign that our writers need no longer choose between ‘satire’ and ‘the sacred’
  • Marlon James, the Jamaican novelist, has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for "A Brief History of Seven Killings," his fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Photograph by Felix Clay

    The G2 interview
    Man Booker winner Marlon James: ‘I was the nerd, I wasn’t into sports, assumed gay'

    The novelist talks about nearly packing it in after his first book was rejected 78 times, growing up listening to Eurythmics and Pet Shop Boys – and A Brief History of Seven Killings, his multi-voiced epic about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley

    • Booker winner Marlon James gets Royal Mail's stamp of approval

    • Marlon James hopes winning Man Booker prize will bring recognition to more Caribbean writers – video

    • Man Booker winner's debut novel rejected nearly 80 times

13 October 2015

  • Marlon James

    Marlon James is an uncompromising and exhilarating Man Booker winner

    There are huge rewards to be found in A Brief History of Seven Killings – a many-voiced kaleidoscopic history of Jamaica’s gang violence
  • Marlon James, 44, who lives in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the Man Booker’s 47-year history.

    Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015

    Author of A Brief History of Seven Killings – a fictional account of an attempt to take Bob Marley’s life – first Jamaican writer to win prestigious prize
  • booker shortlist

    The week in books
    Man Booker prize 2015: one judge on the impossible task of choosing a winner

    No prize can please everyone, but the shortlist of six is the result of passionate and painstaking argument, says judge Sam Leith. Who would you like to win tonight?

11 October 2015

  • marlon james

    On my radar
    On my radar: Marlon James’s cultural highlights

  • Booker prize 2015, Yanagihara

    Book of the day
    Man Booker prize 2015 – the shortlist

10 October 2015

  • Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX Shutterstock (5081679k) The MAN Booker Prize shortlist announcement and judges photocall held at the Riverbank House. The MAN Booker Prize shortlist announcementt, London, Britain - 15 Sept 2015 MANBOOKERPRIZESHORTLISTANNOUNCEMENTTLONDONBRITAIN15SEPT2015ANNOUNCEMENTJUDGESPHOTOCALLHELDATRIVERBANKHOUSE.30960908

    Man Booker 2015 shortlist: the stories behind the novels

    Bob Marley’s charisma, islands wrapped in pink skirts, the nature of friendship … The six shortlisted authors reveal what inspired them to write their books

September 2015

  • American writer Robin Black.

    Rachel Cooke's shelf life
    Life Drawing by Robin Black; Euphoria by Lily King – love triangles that didn’t make the cut

    It’s awards season again, but what of the literary gems that get left behind?
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