Marlon James

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The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series Presents: Marlon James

bn-go115_bookcl_8s_20150121183118Reading: Monday, January 23
Schrott Center for the Arts, 7:30 PM
Student Q&A: Monday, January 23
Gallahue Room 105, 2:25 PM

 

 

Marlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. His most recent novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times Notable Book.

James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Events

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Butler offers two distinct reading series and an array of student social events. The award-winning Vivan S. Delbrook Visiting Writer’s Series brings the most influential people in contemporary literature to Butler. Not only have authors like Toni Morrison, Billy Collins, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Gwendolyn Brooks, Nick Hornby, Margaret Atwood, Allen Ginsberg and Amy Tan shared their work with the Indianapolis community, but they have interacted directly with graduate students in small Q & A’s, dinners, one on one workshops. The conversations@efroymson event series provides intimate and unique readings, workshops and events. Additionally, students meet up for open writing, dialogue, book discussions, The Akbar, and the Divedapper Poetry Carnival.

2017 Spring Visiting Writer’s Series

2017 Spring conversations@efroymson 

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