Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015

At age 44, Marlon James has become the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings.  This novel goes into detail of the fictional history of the attempted murder of Bob Marley.  One of the chair judges for this award, Michael Wood, said the novel based in 1976 was "an extraordinary book."



James hopes that this win will shed some light on Caribbean writing as a whole.