Identify the writer who won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2015?

Identify the writer who won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, 2015? Correct Answer <span style="">Marlon James</span>

Solution

The correct answer is Marlon James

Key Points

• Jamaican author Marlon James has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.
• He is the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize.
• “A Brief History of Seven Killings” is a story of Bob Marley a botched assassination, drugs, violence, gangs, swearing, reggae, and the CIA.
• He is the author of other five novels such as John Crow's Devil, The Book of Night Women, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, and Moon Witch, Spider King

 Important Points

Tom McCarthy

• Tom McCarthy is an English writer and artist.
• His debut novel, “Remainder”, was published in 2005
• Tom McCarthy has twice been nominated for the Man Booker and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013.
• He won a Believer Book Award for “Remainder” in 2008

Sunjeev Sahota

• Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel 'China Room’
• He was a 2015 Booker Prize nominee for ‘The Year of the Runaways’
• His first novel, Ours are the Streets, was published in January 2011

Anne Tyler

• Anne Tyler is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic
• Tyler’s first novel, If Morning Ever Comes, was published in 1964.
• Tyler`s ‘Breathing Lessons’, which explores a couple’s relationship as they drive to a funeral
• It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989.