A hunter named Tracker, who is famous for his nose - “for finding what would rather stay lost” - is hired to find the lost child, who may or may not be the rightful heir to the throne of an ancient African empire. Naipaul who won in 1971.The story kernel at the center of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” Marlon James’s surreal new fantasy epic, concerns the search for a missing boy. He is the second Caribbean winner of the prize, following Trinidad-born V. It won the fiction category of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, having been the first book by a Jamaican author ever to be shortlisted. His most recent novel, 2014's A Brief History of Seven Killings, explores several decades of Jamaican history and political instability through the perspectives of many narrators. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, is about a slave woman's revolt in a Jamaican plantation in the early 19th century. His first novel, John Crow's Devil - which was rejected 70 times before being accepted for publication - tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. James has taught English and creative writing at Macalester College since 2007. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University (2006). James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies, where he read Language and Literature. Henry) became a detective and his father (from whom James took a love of Shakespeare and Coleridge) a lawyer. James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were both in the Jamaican police: his mother (who gave him his first prose book, a collection of stories by O. Now living in Minneapolis, James teaches literature at Macalester College in St. He has published three novels: John Crow's Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009) and A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes Unive Marlon James is a Jamaican-born writer.

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