Author
Marlon James
Birth Date
November 24, 1970
(55 Years)
Associated Country
Jamaica
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist known for his ambitious, genre-blending fiction and vivid, complex portrayals of history, violence, and identity. He was born in Kingston and later moved to the United States, where he teaches creative writing. His Caribbean background and global perspective strongly shape his work.
James gained international acclaim with his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won the Booker Prize. The novel explores political violence in Jamaica through multiple voices and perspectives. He is also the author of John Crow’s Devil (2005) and The Book of Night Women (2009), as well as the Dark Star Trilogy, a fantasy series beginning with Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019).
His writing is known for its bold structure, rich language, and unflinching exploration of difficult subjects. James is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary voices in world literature, particularly for his innovative approach to storytelling and his reimagining of historical and mythological narratives.
James gained international acclaim with his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), which won the Booker Prize. The novel explores political violence in Jamaica through multiple voices and perspectives. He is also the author of John Crow’s Devil (2005) and The Book of Night Women (2009), as well as the Dark Star Trilogy, a fantasy series beginning with Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019).
His writing is known for its bold structure, rich language, and unflinching exploration of difficult subjects. James is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary voices in world literature, particularly for his innovative approach to storytelling and his reimagining of historical and mythological narratives.
Books
The Disappearers 2026
In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth:...
The Dark Star, Book 2
In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon...
The Dark Star, Book 1
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always...
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the...
It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and...
John Crow's Devil 2010
In the village of Gibbeah―where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives―magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is...