Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Who is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize?

Who is the winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize?

Options

1) Marlon James

2)anne tyler

3) tom mccarth

4) hanya yanagihara

answer

1) Marlon James

Other details

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist. He has published three novels:

His book A Brief History of Seven Killings, is the  winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

Marlon James has become the first Jamaican author to win the prize

James is a 1991 graduate of the University of the West Indies where he read Language and Literature. He received a master's degree in creative writing from Wilkes University.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction  is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade

From its inception, only Commonwealth, Irish, and Zimbabwean citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2013, however, this eligibility was widened to any English language novel.