Author
Marlon James
Marlon James is the Jamaican novelist behind A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize 2015), the Dark Star trilogy (Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Moon Witch, Spider King), and John Crow's Devil. Macalester College professor.
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2
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2
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Years active
2014-2019
Reviewed
Our reviews of Marlon James's work
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 2019 review. A hunter with a heightened sense of smell seeks a missing child across a sub-Saharan African fantasy continent. First Dark Star book.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 2014 review. The 1976 attempt on Bob Marley's life and its aftermath across Jamaica, Miami, and New York. Booker Prize 2015 and the most structurally ambitious novel from the Caribbean in a generation.
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What we have said about Marlon James
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 2019 review. A hunter with a heightened sense of smell seeks a missing child across a sub-Saharan African fantasy continent. First Dark Star book.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 2014 review. The 1976 attempt on Bob Marley's life and its aftermath across Jamaica, Miami, and New York. Booker Prize 2015 and the most structurally ambitious novel from the Caribbean in a generation.