Man Booker prize winner tells of how religion intensified his struggle with his sexuality as a youth
Jamaican novelist Marlon James, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2015, wanted to alter his sexuality “more than anything” in his youth and underwent a gruelling religious ritual to try to “drive out the gay”, he is to explain in a radio interview on Sunday.
But it was only when the writer eventually turned away from formal religion and left the Caribbean that he was able to fully accept his homosexuality and even write about it. As Desert Island Discs’ latest castaway on BBC Radio 4, James details the extreme evangelical exorcism, or “gay cure”, he endured at a Pentecostal church in Jamaica.
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