Marlon James - Jamaican Novelist
Marlon James explains to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Andrea Kidd how he creates his works and why for his current novels he writes surrounded with African and sci- fi images on his wall
Since winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2015 for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, based around the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1970s, Jamaica, Marlon has been researching and writing his much anticipated Dark Star Trilogy.
He has lived in Minneapolis, in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota for the past ten years and he shows the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Andrea Kidd around his new office near downtown, where he works surrounded by books and by African and sci-fi images on the wall. He also reveals some of the characters that are exciting his imagination – from three hundred year old women to African vampires who attack in daylight.
Last on
Clips
-
![]()
How Marlon James deals with page one pressure
Duration: 01:08
-
![]()
What does Marlon James look at as he works?
Duration: 01:46
Broadcasts
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 02:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online, East Asia, Europe and the Middle East, UK DAB/Freeview & West and Central Africa only
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 03:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 04:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 06:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Australasia
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 10:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet
- Tue 18 Apr 2017 21:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet