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In the Studio: Marlon James - Jamaican Novelist

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Marlon James - Jamaican Novelist

18/04/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Studio, Marlon James - Jamaican Novelist

Marlon James reveals how he works and discusses his latest novels The Dark Star Trilogy

Marlon James explains to the BBC’s Andrea Kidd how he creates his works and why for his current novels he writes surrounded with African and sci- fi images on his wall

Since winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2015 for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, based around the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1970s, Jamaica, Marlon has been researching and writing his much anticipated Dark Star Trilogy. 

He has lived in Minneapolis, in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota for the past ten years and he  shows the BBC’s Andrea Kidd around his new office near downtown, where he works surrounded by books and by African and sci-fi images on the wall. He also reveals some of the characters that are exciting his imagination – from three hundred year old women to African vampires who attack in daylight.

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