Marlon James created history in 2015 as the first Jamaican to win the prestigious Booker Prize. (Photo: AP)
Award-winning Jamaican novelist Marlon James is living a writer’s dream. Having created history in 2015 as the first Jamaican to win the prestigious Booker Prize – the leading literary award for English speaking fiction writers – for his book
A Brief History of Seven Killings, James is currently juggling multiple projects, including deals with
Amazon, and Channel 4 to adapt filmed adaptations of his various works.
Appearing on last week’s episode of TVJ’s
Rolling with Dewight Peters via ZOOM from Minnesota amid the brutish winter storm that enveloped a large swath of the United States, the snowed-in James revealed to Peters that in addition to currently developing and writing a detective series based in Jamaica for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, he is also penning the follow-up to his 2019 bestselling fantasy novel