{"id":2206,"date":"2015-10-25T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2015-10-25T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T22:12:12","slug":"gay-author-marlon-james-wins-booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2206","title":{"rendered":"Gay author Marlon James wins Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Out gay Jamaican author Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for?<em>A Brief History fo Seven Killings.?<\/em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/10\/14\/gay-author-marlon-james-wins-man-booker-prize-2015\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Wood, chair of the judges, declared James? novel as the ?most exciting? book on the literary shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>The 680-page epic is described as ?full of surprises?, ?very violent? and ?full of swearing?.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted it was ?so surreal? to win and dedicated the award to his late father who had shaped his ?literary sensibilities?.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first gay, Jamaican author to win the award.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to winning the award, James discussed growing up gay in Jamaica and whether he identifies much with the gay character in the novel, Weeper.<\/p>\n<p>?I don?t know if any of me found its way into that,? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/11672011\/Booker-Prize-author-Marlon-James-interview.html\">he told The Telegraph.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?But it was very important to me that there were gay characters in the book ? to reflect the gayness and hypocrisy in Jamaica.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Out gay Jamaican author Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for?A Brief History fo Seven Killings.?Via PinkNews: Michael Wood, chair of the judges, declared James? novel as the ?most exciting? book on the literary shortlist. The 680-page epic is described as ?full of surprises?, ?very violent? and ?full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[447,449,448,446],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-book-awards","tag-jamaica","tag-man-booker","tag-marlon-james"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}