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Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs shortlisted for Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes
Novelist Marlon James and biographer Nicholas Boggs have both made it onto the shortlists for significant British literary awards. James is a nominee for the Booker Prize with The Disappearers, a novel that explores the harsh realities of AIDS-era gay life and homophobia in Jamaica. Boggs has been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction for Baldwin: A Love Story, which draws on 20 years of research into James Baldwin’s intimate life and creative relationships. James says the idea for his novel came from a rumored homophobic attack in Kingston during the late 1980s. To…
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