Marlon James
Autor von A Brief History of Seven Killings
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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- Marlon, James
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- 1970-11-24
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- male
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- Jamaica (birth)
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- Kingston, Jamaica
- Wohnorte
- Kingston, Jamaica
USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA - Ausbildung
- University of the West Indies
Wilkes University - Berufe
- novelist
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- Macalester College
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- 2015 Man Booker
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- 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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Insgesamt ist diese Jamaica-Geschichte aus vielen Perspektiven erzählt und man tut gut daran, sich einzuprägen, wer wer ist und zu welcher Seite gehört. Jamaica in diesem Buch ist korrupt, brutal, Menschen sind Freiwild, haben eigentlich keine Chance. Es gibt zwei politische Parteien, die konservative Jamaican Labour JLP und die People's National PNP, die sich 1976 im Wahlkampf befinden. Bob Marley plant auf Initiative der sozialdemokratischen PNP ein Friedenskonzert. Zwei Tage vorher findet das beschriebene Attentat statt, das Marley aber überlebt, so dass er dennoch auftreten kann.
Das Buch ist anstrengend zu lesen, aufgrund der oft gelobten, aber recht wilden Sprache und auch aufgrund der brutalen, sehr selten positiven Ereignisse. Und lang ist es auch.… (mehr)