Marlon James wins Booker Prize for novel

[Sir X]

Marlon James wins Booker Prize for novel on attempted assassination of Bob Marley
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Jamaican author Marlon James in London (AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE’NNIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP/Getty Images/ )
By Ron Charles October 13 at 4:52 PM
Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize in London on Tuesday night for “A Brief History of Seven Killings.”

James, 44, is the first Jamaican writer to win the prize. He took Britain’s highest literary honor from a field of six finalists that included previous Booker nominee Tom McCarthy and Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler.

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[Mosiah]

Thanks!

[Don1]

Marlon James wins Booker Prize for novel on attempted assassination of Bob Marley
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Jamaican author Marlon James in London (AFP PHOTO / NIKLAS HALLE’NNIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP/Getty Images/ )
By Ron Charles October 13 at 4:52 PM
Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize in London on Tuesday night for “A Brief History of Seven Killings.”

James, 44, is the first Jamaican writer to win the prize. He took Britain’s highest literary honor from a field of six finalists that included previous Booker nominee Tom McCarthy and Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...cf9_story.html

noice!

[Sir X]

A Brief History of Seven Killings that has parts written in patois scoops £50,000 award

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[Gamma]

ah bwoy ......

literary work using patois wins this prestigious international award?

[Sir X]

Its the British 2nd language , some would argue 1st in london or parts of the U.K

[Gamma]

yuh mean MCE?

[Sir X]

Mr. James, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College in St. Paul, said that he also wrestled with how to depict Jamaica’s violent past while he was working on the novel. “We don’t want to talk about the history, we don’t want to talk about the corruption, we don’t even want to talk about homosexuality,” he said. “I love my country to death but I also remember how much of our history is paid for in blood. Were I in Jamaica, I would not have written this novel.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/wo...pgtype=article

[Rudi]

See it deh. Everybody is congratulating him. And dem say Jamaicans are homophobic. Kiss teeth.

[Don1]

See it deh. Everybody is congratulating him. And dem say Jamaicans are homophobic. Kiss teeth.

what!! im fishy?

[Rudi]

Yep.

[Jangle]

Wah a fishy dread? Is that an oxymoron?

[Gamma]

Years ago I came with the idea of a sitcom about a gay rasta man with a lisp .... People axe mi if mi mad. I was jeered mocked and spat at!

[Sir X]

Unnuh terrible ,unnuh caan juss gi di bredda im due and done.Im tek patwa to different heights.

[Don1]

Fish Tails

Wah a fishy dread? Is that an oxymoron?