{"id":176460707,"date":"2015-10-18T01:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T06:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176460707"},"modified":"2015-10-18T01:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T06:21:37","slug":"interview-video-jamaican-author-marlon-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2015\/10\/18\/interview-video-jamaican-author-marlon-james\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW + VIDEO: Jamaican Author Marlon James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176460708\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mad-news.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176460708\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176460708\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mad-news.jpg\" alt=\" OCTOBER 14, 2015\" width=\"323\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mad-news.jpg 323w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mad-news-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176460708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCTOBER 14, 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>Jamaican Author <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>Marlon James <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>Wins The 2015 <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 36pt;\"><strong>Man Booker\u00a0Prize<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postmetadata\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>BY<\/em>\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"View all posts by Janice aka Miss Mad News\" href=\"http:\/\/madnewsuk.com\/author\/madnews\/\" rel=\"author\">JANICE AKA MISS MAD NEWS<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/madnews.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/marlon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38562\" src=\"https:\/\/madnews.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/marlon.jpg?w=705\" alt=\"marlon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Jamaican author Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel,\u00a0<em>A Brief History of Seven Killings,\u00a0<\/em>inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">James, who now lives in the United States is the first Jamaican writer to receive the prestigious, \u00a350,000 prize, awarded annually for the best novel written in the English language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4odf2A2nDag?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"705\" height=\"427\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulations Marlon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madnewsuk.com\/2015\/10\/14\/jamaican-author-marlon-james-wins-the-2015-man-booker-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/madnewsuk.com\/2015\/10\/14\/jamaican-author-marlon-james-wins-the-2015-man-booker-prize\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Jamaican Author Marlon James Wins The 2015 Man Booker\u00a0Prize &nbsp; &nbsp; BY\u00a0JANICE AKA MISS MAD NEWS &nbsp; &nbsp; Jamaican author Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel,\u00a0A Brief History of Seven Killings,\u00a0inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s. 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