Jamaica's Marlon James was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2015 for his fictional novel 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'. It portrays a fictional history of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976, set in the backdrop of cacophony and violence of Jamaica in 1970-80. James became the first Jamaican to win the award in the prize's 47-year history.
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