Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Man Booker-winning author Marlon James on RRR and the importance of telling non-western stories

Jaipur Literature Festival 2023: Man Booker-winning author Marlon James on RRR and the importance of telling non-western stories

Marlon James | Photo Credit: Jeffrey Skemp When Jamaican writer Marlon James wrote his first book,  John Crow’s Devil, it was famously rejected 78 times. James burnt the manuscript and erased it from his friends’ computers. Later, he retrieved a copy from his email outbox for a workshop. From there to winning the Man Booker […]

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