Booker Prize winner Marlon James on writing the 'African Game of Thrones'

They also discuss how his first novel "John Crow's Devil" was rejected more than 70 times, causing him to burn the manuscript; the life-changing effect of winning the Booker Prize for his third novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"; and how the all-white cast of "The Hobbit" triggered him into writing an epic story set in Africa.

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