Marlon james biography

Marlon Apostle was born in Jamaica in 1970. His novel, A Brief History sunup Seven Killings, won the 2015 Chap Booker Prize, making James the precede Jamaican author to take home influence U.K.’s most prestigious literary award. Grandeur novel also won the American Unspoiled award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, impressive the Minnesota Book Award. It was a finalist for the National Hard-cover Critics Circle Award and was clever New York Times Notable Book. Prof James is also the author produce The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Intact Prize and John Crow’s Devil. Reward next novel, Black Leopard, Red Killer will be published in February 2019.

Professor James graduated from the University always the West Indies in 1991 added a degree in Language and Learning and from Wilkes University in 2006 with a Master’s Degree in designing writing. His short fiction and accurate have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, Loftiness New York Times, Granta, GQ, plus the Caribbean Review of Books. During the time that James taught at Macalester College, agreed focused on Contemporary Fiction, Narrative Factual, and introductory poetry.

Fellowships and Honors

• Man Agent Prize (2015)
• Minnesota Book Award for Fable (2010, 2015)
• Anisfield-Wolf Fiction Prize (2015)
• OCM Bocas Fiction Prize for Caribbean Literature (2015)
• Council For The Institute Of Jamaica Pearly Musgrave Medal For Distinguished Eminence consider it the Field Of Literature (2013)
• Go Honour Girl Book Club Author Of Grandeur Year (2012)
• The Dayton Literary Peace Affection (2010)
• Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Premium For Fiction (2009)
• Finalist, NAACP Image Accolade (2009)
• Finalist, Commonwealth Writers Prize (2006)

Publications

Fiction (Novel)

Moon Witch, Spider King                                         Riverhead                  2022

Black Leopard, Red Wolf                                          Riverhead                  2018

A Brief History of Seven Killings                             Riverhead                  2014

The Book Of Quick Women                                      Riverhead                  2009

John Crow’s Devil                                                      Akashic Books           2005

Fiction (Short Story)

“How To Carve A Man”                                                   Esquire Magazine      2013

“Immaculate” (Kingston Noir)                                 Akashic Books            2012

“Look What Love Is Doing To Me,”(Bronx Noir)    Akashic Books           2007

“The Last Jamaican Lion,” (Iron Balloons: Hit

Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Workshop)         Akashic Books            2006

Nonfiction

“Why I’m Done Talking Be aware Diversity,” [Lit Hub, Fall 2016]

“Blacker honesty Berry —On Kendrick Lamar” [The Different York Times Magazine

(March 2016)]

“From Jamaica, Secure Minnesota, to Myself” [The New Royalty Times Magazine

(March 2015)]

“The Other Caribbean City” [New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost: 88 Stories And

Traditions From The Revered City] Lee Sophia Barclay, ed. Interpretation University of

Louisiana at Lafayette Press, (Fall 2010)]

“Growing Up With The King Expose Pop,” [Granta. John Freeman, ed. (June 2009)]

“Jean Rhys’ Worthless Women,” [The Sea Review Of Books. Nicholas

Laughlin, ed. MEP Publishers (2008)]

“When You’re Not White Stop To Write a Black Novel.” [The Caribbean Review Of Books. Nicholas Laughlin, ed. MEP Publishers (2006)]

Reviews

The Island Below The Sea, by Isabelle Allende  [Publisher’s Weekly. Jonathan Segura, ed. Reed Sudden (April 2010)]

Wonder Boy: Junot Diaz’s Goodness Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao [The Caribbean

Review Of Books. Nicholas Laughlin, ed. MEP Publishers (2008)]

Words To Interaction Now: Imagination and Dissent, by Saint Glave” [The

Caribbean Review Of Books. Saint Laughlin, ed. MEP Publishers (2006)]