Main content

Author Marlon James

Jamaican-born author Marlon James, winner of the Man Booker prize 2015, on his three novels including A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Martha Kearney talks to Jamaican-born author Marlon James. James has written three novels to date, John Crew’s Devil, The Book of Night Women and his latest book A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Man Booker prize in 2015. He discusses his work and how in his third he starts with an account of an attempted assassination of Bob Marley intertwining fact and fiction, documenting a violent era of political instability in Jamaican history.

(Photo: Author Marlon James poses with his award at the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 ceremony in London. Credit: Neil Hall/Getty Images)

Available now

23 minutes

Last on

Sat 23 Jul 201618:06GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet

More episodes

Previous

Anne Enright

Next

Author Tahmima Anam

See all episodes from Talking Books

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Jul 201601:06GMT
    BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
  • Fri 22 Jul 201602:06GMT
    BBC World Service Online & UK DAB/Freeview only
  • Fri 22 Jul 201603:06GMT
    BBC World Service East Asia
  • Fri 22 Jul 201604:06GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia & South Asia only
  • Fri 22 Jul 201606:06GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa
  • Fri 22 Jul 201614:06GMT
    BBC World Service except News Internet
  • Fri 22 Jul 201621:06GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & News Internet
  • Sat 23 Jul 201618:06GMT
    BBC World Service except News Internet