---
name: "Marlon James"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marlon-james"
fi1m_id: "marlon-james"
imdb_id: "nm6518592"
tmdb_id: 1701205
wikidata_id: "Q16211564"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 November 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T00:35:58.734922+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Marlon James

## Identity

Marlon James

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marlon-james
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marlon-james
- **IMDb ID:** nm6518592
- **TMDB ID:** 1701205
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16211564
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_James_(novelist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16211564, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518592/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1701205

Producer. Born 24 November 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 November 1970, Kingston, Jamaica
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_James_(novelist), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16211564, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518592/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1701205

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Get Millie Black*](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and screenwriter. Born in Kingston, he is the author of several novels, including the 2014 Booker Prize winner *A Brief History of Seven Killings*.

In 2024 he created and wrote his first television series, the crime drama *Get Millie Black*, which aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and HBO in the United States. The five-episode limited series stars Tamara Lawrance and draws on James’s family background, with the central character partly inspired by his mother, a pioneering detective.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, channel4.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Get Millie Black* (2024), Fi1m 75, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Get Millie Black* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/get-millie-black.md)

## Gallery

- ![Marlon James](https://film.one/media/person/4142313/gallery-f460abf62184.jpg) Marlon James — Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Marlon_james_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marlon James at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/4142313/gallery-c59678d76a8f.jpg) Marlon James at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival. — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Marlon_James_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg/1280px-Marlon_James_BBF_2010_Shankbone.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 7 won, 1 nominated

- Guggenheim Fellowship 2026: Guggenheim Fellowship (won)
- Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2022: Dragon Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominated), for *Moon Witch, Spider King*
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2020: Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (won), for *Black Leopard, Red Wolf*
- Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction 2019: Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction (won), for *Black Leopard, Red Wolf*
- American Book Awards 2015: American Book Awards (won), for *A Brief History of Seven Killings*
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2015: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (won), for *A Brief History of Seven Killings*
- Booker Prize 2015: Booker Prize (won), for *A Brief History of Seven Killings*
- Silver Musgrave Medal 2013: Silver Musgrave Medal (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/marlon-james