Marlon James

Marlon James is a Jamaican author who won the Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970, he is one of the most important and ambitious literary novelists of his generation. A Brief History of Seven Killings is his epic, kaleidoscopic novel about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 — a sprawling, audacious work that spans decades and continents, told through a chorus of unforgettable voices. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers ambitious, audacious literary fiction from a Booker Prize winner — novels that redefine what the novel can do.