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Marlon James Biografía y Hechos
Marlon James (Kingston, 24 de noviembre de 1970) es un escritor jamaicano.[1] Es el autor de cuatro novelas: John Crow's Devil (2005), El Libro de las Mujeres Nocturnas (2009), Breve historia de siete asesinatos (2014), ganador en 2015 del Premio Booker, y Leopardo Negro, Lobo Rojo (2019). Vive en Minneapolis, EE. UU. y da clases en el Macalester College en St. Paul, Minnesota.[2][3] También da conferencias en la St. Francis University sobre Escritura Creativa.[4] Primeros años James nació en Kingston, Jamaica, sus padres trabajaban para la policía.[5][6] James estudió en el prestigioso Instituto Wolmer.[7] Se graduó en 1991 en la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales. Dejó Jamaica para huir de la homofobia y las condiciones económicas que suponían un estancamiento de su carrera.[8][2] Recibió un master en escritura creativa de la Wilkes University (2006). Carrera Su primera novela, John Crows Devil (2005), fue rechazada 70 veces antes de ser publicada y está ambientada en un remoto pueblo jamaicano en 1957. Su segunda novela, El Libro de las Mujeres Nocturnas (2009), trata sobre una revuelta de mujeres esclavas en una plantación jamaicana del siglo XIX. Su novela Breve Historia de Siete Asesinatos explora varias décadas de historia jamaicana a través de la perspectiva de muchos narradores. Ganó en la categoría de ficción del 2015 el OCM Bocas Prize para Literatura del Caribe y el Premio Booker de Ficción de 2015, habiendo sido el primer autor jamaicano premiado. Es el segundo ganador caribeño del premio tras V. S. Naipaul Quién ganó en 1971. Su último libro es Leopardo Negro, Lobo Rojo (2019), primero de una serie de fantasía. James es profesor en Macalester College en St. Paul, Minnesota, desde 2007. Es también conferenciante de la facultad de la St. Francis University en Escritura Creativa.[4] En febrero de 2019, James dio la séptima Conferencia Tolkien Anual en la Universidad de Pembroke, Oxford. Novelas John Crow's Devil (2005) The Book of Night Women (2009) A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) Leopardo negro, Lobo Rojo (Libro 1) (2019) Temas Abarcan la religión y lo sobrenatural, sexualidad, violencia, y colonialismo. A menudo, sus novelas muestran la lucha para encontrar una identidad. El diablo de John Crow (2005) En su primera novela, James explora la Jamaica post colonial a través de una aquetipica batalla del Bien contra el Mal. Sus personajes representan muchas facetas de la humanidad.[9] Además, esta obra de gótico caribeño revela el poder de la culpa y la hipocresía en una persona y en una comunidad. Los fantasmas del colonialismo son más sutiles, pero la inestabilidad política está muy presente. El Libro de las Mujeres Nocturnas (2009) James desafía el tópico del esclavo tradicional para presentar una protagonista (Lilith) con una dualidad compleja. Lilith Odia a los amos, pero mucho de la novela trata de cómo "aspira a obtener una posición de privilegio dentro de la plantación manteniendo relaciones sexuales con un blanco, Robert Quinn".[10] No quedan claros los límites del amor o la dependencia. Las esclavas están retratadas como fuertes e inteligentes, mientras los esclavos son a menudo retratados como débiles, desconsiderados, e incluso traidores. "Violación, tortura, asesinato y otros actos inhumanos hacen de este complejo libro una obra perturbadora y elocuente".[11] La novela "desafía ideas hegemónicas señalando la relación antagonica entre colonizadores y colonizados."[10] Breve Historia de Siete Asesinatos (2014) Retrata una sociedad jamaicana que lucha para equilibrar su identidad.[12] La novela tiene 12 narradores. Sheri-Marie Harrison analiza la novela y explica: "el rechazo de James de una tradición puramente nacionalista, que tanto gusta a otros autores, concreta su crítica del nacionalismo que actúa como una cortina de humo para otros problemas más graves. Las fuerzas transnacionales son las que dominan el mundo."[13] Leopardo negro, Lobo Rojo (2019) Calificado como un Juego de Tronos[14] africano — es el primero de una trilogía.[15] Ha sido descrito por NPR como "una búsqueda de una nueva fantasía épica — llena de monstruos, sexo, y violencia, pero ambientada una mitológica versión del África antigua."[16] Según Time, la novela se une a otras de Fantasía Negra como las de Tomi Adeyemi y N.K. Jemisin, cuyas obras rompen estereotipos sobre lo que debe aparecer en un libro de fantasía." El libro rompe moldes, por ejemplo, los protagonistas principales son una pareja homosexual e interracial formada por un rastreador y un espadachín. Influencias Las influencias de James incluyen escritores y músicos. En su discurso de aceptación del Booker, James citó a Bob Marley y Peter Tosh .[17] En su ensayo "De Jamaica a Minnesota", publicado en la Revista New York Times, James describe que leer Shame, la novela de Salman Rushdie le hizo darse cuenta de que podía escribir sobre el presente con su propio estilo.[2] James ha dicho que estuvo releyendo la novela de Ben Okri Famished Road mientras escribía Leopardo Negro, Lobo Rojo: "Okri es una influencia para mi. He leído Famished Road cuatro veces".[15] Tono y estilo El trabajo de James tiene un estilo único, a menudo perturbador y brutal, comparado al de Quentin Tarantino. James no escatima sus descripciones de actos sexuales y violentos, lo cual contribuye a la naturaleza cruda de su escritura. "James no quiere entretener a sus lectores quiere horrorizarlos…" A menudo utiliza el jamaicano Patois en sus diálogos.[12] La escritura de James ha sido comparada a Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, y Gabriel García Márquez. Recepción Recepción de las novelas de James ha sido polémica—los mismos elementos son apreciados por unos y odiados por otros. Un crítico ha escrito: "El exceso domina Una Historia Breve de Siete Asesinatos."[12] Otros denominan su estilo como "orgiástico" y "masturbatorio".[13] Sobre El Libro de las Mujeres Nocturnas, otro crítico explica: " el libro de James es perturbador y elocuente."[11] Premios y reconocimientos 2009 – National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for The Book of Night Women 2010 – Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Fiction) for The Book of Night Women 2010 – Minnesota Book Award (Novel & Short Story) for The Book of Night Women 2013 – Silver Musgrave Medal from the Institute of Jamaica[18] 2014 – National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for A Brief History of Seven Killings[19] 2015 – Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction for A Brief History of Seven Killings 2015 – OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (Fiction category winner), for A Brief History of Seven Killings 2015 – Man Booker Prize for Fiction for A Brief History of Seven Killings 2015 – Green Carnation Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings 2019 – National Book Award for Fiction finalist for Black Leopard, Red Wolf[20] Referencias Enlaces externos Paul Holdengraber, "Marlon James necesita ruido para escribir (y otro revelations)" (ent.... 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The Book of Not
Tsitsi DangarembgaAs Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart. Determined to excel, Tambu exhausts herself wi...
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The Shape of Bones
Daniel Galera & Alison Entrekin'Like a cross of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and American Psycho' Financial TimesFrom one of Brazil's foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about y...
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Brother
David Chariandy'A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life' Marlon James, Winner of the Man Booker Prize NOW A FILM S...
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Monsieur Pain
Roberto BolañoParis, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies dying in hospital. He's hiccupping himself to death.When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis his wife calls on an acquaintan...
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
Roberto Bolaño'The best and weirdest kind of literary game' Financial TimesFeaturing several massmurdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a footballhooligan ring and a poet who c...
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The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation. . ....
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The Third Reich
Roberto BolañoA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceIn Roberto Bolaño's The Third Reich wargames champion Udo Berger and his girlfriend Ingeborg are on holiday. There they meet another vac...
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2666
Roberto BolañoA National Books Critics Circle Award WinnerThe posthumous masterwork from "One of the greatest and most influential modern writers" (James Wood, The New York Times Book Review).Wr...
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There There
Tommy OrangeShortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award One of Barack Obama's best books of 2018, the New York Times bestselling novel about contemporary America from a bold ...
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The Skating Rink
Roberto Bolaño'A work of intense and unrealized longing' The New York TimesSet in the seaside town of Z, on the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona, The Skating Rink oscillates between two poles: a ...
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Black Shield Maiden
Willow Smith & Jess HendelFrom Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.Lore, legend, and history tell us of the ...
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Ekaterinburg
Helen RappaportA vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a ...
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The Blind King's Wrath
Ashok K BankerThe final chapter in Ashok K. Banker’s acclaimed Burnt Empire Saga, The Blind King’s Wrath depicts the climactic battle between Krushni and her father, the Demonlord Jarsun, for th...
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My Better Half and Me
Joss Ackland & Rosemary AcklandRosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen. For the next fiftyeight years, through happiness and heartache, she continued to write. Even after the tragic o...
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Will
Will Self'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste no...
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The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño'A master of the short form' IndependentRoberto Bolaño's place as a giant of Latin American literature was confirmed by the publication of his posthumous masterpiece , 2666. The I...
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James Dean und Marlon Brando: Filmstars als Antihelden?
Christina QuastStudienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation Film und Fernsehen, Note: 1,3, Universität Dortmund, 43 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch
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Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
Wole TalabiThe British Science Fiction Awardnominated and Nebula Finalist debut novel from Wole Talabi. This contemporary fantasy is filled with the mythos of Nigeria and features Yoruba gods...
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Age of Vice
Deepti KapoorAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Illfated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic saga' JAKE ARNOTT, GUARDIAN 'Huge, epic, immersive...
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The Devil's Looking-Glass
Mark Chadbourn1593: The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr John Dee is missing...Fear sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dee's possession is an obsidian mirror, an obj...
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Playboy
Joe ThomasSão Paulo, 20 March 2016 A campaign for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff is in full swing, yet 100,000 people take to Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo in her support.On the...
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Amulet
Roberto Bolaño'Encapsulates the violence and tragedy of recent Latin American history' The TimesAuxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor o...
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Tinkers
Paul HardingAn old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall of...
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First Person
Richard FlanaganYoung and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of...
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Charcoal Joe
Walter MosleySeymour Brathwaite, a young physicist, was found standing over the body of a murdered man. Charcoal Joe, one of the deadliest men in America, wants Brathwaite cleared. Easy Rawlin...
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Middle Passage
Charles JohnsonCelebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue ...
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Fifty Men's Fashion Icons that Changed the World
Dan Jones & DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTDPainfully cool and instantly recognisable, the 50 style trailblazers in this collection used fashion to attract attention, gain influence, express themselves and make powerful stat...
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This One Sky Day
Leone RossSHORLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS'Dazzling' Cosmopolitan'I deeply admire This One Sky Day and also, not...
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The Old Slave and the Mastiff
Patrick ChamoiseauA profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to fre...
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Less
Andrew Sean GreerWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 A New York Times Notable Book of 2017A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten Book of 2017Longlisted fo...
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New Boy
Tracy Chevalier‘A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue’ Daily ExpressThe bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealous...
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Nostalgia
Mircea Cărtărescu & Julian Semilian'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbowhue...
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Bruja Luna, Rey Araña
Marlon JamesLa segunda entrega de la trilogía con la que Marlon James, ganador del Booker Prize, ha dado la vuelta al género fantástico.«Mucho más adictiva e imaginativa que su predecesora. Co...
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Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi'Ugandan literature can boast of an international superstar in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi' Economist An awardwinning debut that vividly reimagines Uganda’s troubled history through...
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Palace of the Peacock (Faber Editions)
Wilson HarrisThe visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Danga...
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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
Ingrid PersaudFROM THE WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020 AND THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021 'A voice that has a vibrancy of its own.' RACHEL JOYCE 'A talented and engagin...
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The Murderer
Roy Heath'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless a...
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Maror
Lavie TidharA GUARDIAN AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'Spectacular... fascinating... astonishing... A literary triumph.' Jake Arnott, Guardian How do you build a nation? It tak...
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A Little Lumpen Novelita
Roberto Bolaño'Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime': so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome in A Little Lumpen Novelita.Orphaned o...
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The Book of Night Women
Marlon JamesA startling, hardedged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytellingBy the Man Bookerwinning author Marlon James, this is the powerful story of Lilith, b...
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The Mueller Report
Jason O. GilbertThe president has gotten himself into a bit of trouble. Maybe you heard?The entire country is waiting to see what former FBI director and current special counsel Robert Mueller has...
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The Last Warner Woman
Kei Miller'One woman's tragic tale, beautifully told' Independent on Sunday FROM KEI MILLER, WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONOnce upon a time in Jamaica a young woman went so...
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A Million Aunties
Alecia McKenzie'An elegantly written and emotionally engrossing work of fiction.' Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prizewinning author of Girl, Woman, OtherAn emotional, tender and funny novel from aw...
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Strange Relations
Ralf Webb'Textured literary portraits of the masculine mind and body'Raymond Antrobus, author of The PerseveranceIn October 1960, James Baldwin and John Cheever spoke on a panel together at...
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Woes of the True Policeman
Roberto BolañoBegun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitanoan exiled...
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The Spirit of Science Fiction
Roberto BolañoA tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives.Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find them...
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Hollywood Hellraisers
Robert Sellers'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando'I should have been dea...
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Antwerp
Roberto Bolaño'A fascinating, even compulsory addition to the Bolaño fan’s bookshelf' Daily TelegraphAntwerp was Roberto Bolaño’s first novel, though he chose not to publish it until 2002, more...
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Cowboy Graves
Roberto Bolaño'Companionable, exotic, witty and glamorously suggestive.' The GuardianCowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless ...
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Brotherless Night
V. V. GaneshananthanLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 'A heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught withi...