Video: Marlon James - Winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize

In our first video, watch Marlon James, the eloquent and fascinating prize-winner, talk about writing. He is candid about why he distrusts the written word, as well as previous mistakes he made while writing (and what he did to rectify them):

In our second video, James talks about writing his prizewinning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. He explains how rendering what seemed like one, brief and violent event - the assassination attempt of Bob Marley in 1976 - became a story that spanned decades of Jamaican history: