2010 Presenters
Marlon James
Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1970. Compared to the early work of Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison, his first novel, John Crow's Devil was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Award, The NAACP Image Award and won the Minnesota Book Award for Best Novel/Short Story. He has taught at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and was a judge for the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the 2010 Young Lions Award. Marlon James teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota.
LINKS:
Interview with James in Global Voices Online
Review of John Crow's Devil in The New York Times
