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                 Jamaican Author Wins Prestigious Booker Prize

   by VOA News

   Jamaican author Marlon James has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize
   for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of reggae
   musician Bob Marley in the 1970s.

   Michael Wood, chair of the judges panel, described A Brief History of
   Seven Killings as the "most exciting" book on the shortlist and a novel
   full of the "sheer pleasure'' of language.

   He said the 680-page epic was "full of surprises" as well as being
   "very violent" and "full of swearing."

   James was awarded the $77,000 prize Tuesday night at London's
   Guildhall. A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel from
   the writer, who now lives in the northern U.S. city of Minneapolis.

   James beat five other authors, including two Americans: Pulitzer Prize
   winner Anne Tyler, for the multi-generational family saga A Spool of
   Blue Thread, and Hawaiian writer Hanya Yanagihara for A Little Life,
   the story of four male friends, one of whom is a survivor of horrific
   child abuse.

   The other finalists were British writer Sunjeev Sahota's immigrants'
   story, The Year of the Runaways; the fratricide fable The Fishermen, by
   Nigeria's Chigozie Obioma; and British writer Tom McCarthy's digital
   drama Satin Island.

   This is the second year the prize has been open to English-language
   writers of all nationalities. It had previously been restricted to
   writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth of former British
   colonies.
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