Marlon James Wins Man Booker Prize 2015

Jamaican author @MarlonJames5 tells us he's "pretty excited and overwhelmed" about winning the Man Booker Prize pic.twitter.com/LxtepL15NI
— BBC R4 World Tonight (@BBCWorldTonight) October 13, 2015
From the BBC: Marlon James, a writer who has been compared to Toni Morrison and Quentin Tarantino, won the Booker for A Brief History of Seven Killings, which means he gets £50,000 (~one hundred million dollars? no one has time for these conversions), lots of polite clapping, and a heap of