Marlon James became the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker fiction prize for “A Brief History of Seven Killings”, inspired by an attempt to kill reggae star Bob Marley.
The budding writer hoped that more Caribbean writers will follow his path.
The 686-page novel uses Jamaican patois, Harlem slang and liberal doses of scatological language.
It tells the story of a gang of cocaine-fuelled ghetto kids armed with automatic weapons, who tried but failed to kill Marley in the Jamaican capital Kingston in 1976, before he gave a peace concert.
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