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Marlon James‘s break-out recognition as the recipient of the prestigious 2015 Man Booker Prize is no surprise to those familiar with his career. Born in Jamaica in 1970 and a graduate of the University of the West Indies, his first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The Book of Night Women won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award,…