Marley novel on Booker list
30 July 2015 - 02:03
The long list of 13 titles for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for fiction written in English, published yesterday, features the first Jamaican author in contention for the £50000 (about R977000) prize.Marlon James is nominated for his third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, the story of the attempted assassination of reggae singer Bob Marley in Jamaica of the 1970s and early 1980s.
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