poc-creators:The Man Booker Prize, awarded to the writer of...

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The Man Booker Prize, awarded to the writer of the best original novel written in the English Language and published in England has its first ever Jamaican winner (who also happens to be gay btw) in Marlon James, for his A Brief History of Seven Killings.

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 singer’s house, machine gu...