Marley novel on Booker list

30 July 2015 - 02:03 By Reuters

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.Also in contention are 2007 winner Anne Enright and writers from Nigeria, India, New Zealand, Ireland, the US and Britain.The list will be whittled down to six and the winner will be announced on October 13...

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