Marlon James
Auteur de A Brief History of Seven Killings
A propos de l'auteur
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. He studied literature at the University of the West Indies. He worked in advertising for more than a decade, as a copywriter, art director and graphic designer. He took a writing workshop in Kingston, Jamaica, and later enrolled in a writing afficher plus program at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. His first novel, John Crow's Devil, was published in 2005. His other novels include The Book of Night Women and A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015. He teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Marlon James
The Boy and the Dark Star 18 exemplaires
White Wing, Dark Star (The Dark Star Trilogy, #3) 5 exemplaires
Marlon James Collection 3 Books (A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2015, The Book of… 1 exemplaire
Yedi Cinayetin Kısa Tarihçesi 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases (2020) — Contributeur — 182 exemplaires
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (2006) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
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- Nom légal
- Marlon, James
- Date de naissance
- 1970-11-24
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Jamaica (birth)
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Lieux de résidence
- Kingston, Jamaica
USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Études
- University of the West Indies
Wilkes University - Professions
- novelist
- Organisations
- Macalester College
- Prix et distinctions
- 2015 Man Booker
- Courte biographie
- Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. He is the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, The Minnesota Book Award and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction as well as an NAACP Image Award. His first novel John Crow's Devil was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice. In his third novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, James is exploring multiple genres: the political thriller, the oral biography, and the classic whodunit to confront the untold history of Jamaica in the late 1970's; of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley, and the country's own clandestine battles of the cold war.
James graduated from the University of the West Indies in 1991 with a degree in Language And Literature, and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Masters in creative writing. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared widely including in Esquire, Granta, and The Caribbean Review of Books.
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- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 7,360
- Popularité
- #3,324
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 222
- ISBN
- 128
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 9