Marlon James | |
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Born | Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica | 24 November 1970
Occupation | Novelist |
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Period | 2002–present |
Genre | Fiction |
Literary movement | Postcolonialism |
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Marlon James (born 24 November 1970[1]) 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.[2][3] He is also a faculty lecturer at St. Francis College's Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing.[4]