MARLON JAMES
Feb 23, 2022
3 minutes
Words by Jonathan Wright
Portrait by Mark Seliger
WHEN MARLON JAMES CHOSE TO follow up his Booker-winning A Brief History Of Seven Killings with a fantasy trilogy, there was some surprise within parts of the literary establishment. But talk to the man himself and one of the reasons for this choice couldn’t come through more clearly.
“There are some very, very simple and basic reasons why fantasy,” he says, his accent Jamaican despite the fact he now lives in the USA. “I like magic. I like witches. I like goblins
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