The Fortune Men is based on a true crime. I’m going back to the novel that The Fortune Men interrupted a contemporary novel set in the world of Somali women in London. The Hiding Placeby Trezza Azzopardi was shortlisted in 2000 and is a haunting novel set in Tiger Bay in the 60s, but my absolute favourite is probably The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
What is your favourite Booker-winning or Booker-shortlisted novel? McKay even worked as a stoker on ships crossing the Atlantic so had both this practical experience of working-class Black life as well as a modernist way of communicating that life. For this novel it is Sam Selvon, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston and other writers who lived on the fringes in many ways. Which authors have influenced or inspired your own writing? How does it feel to have The Fortune Men longlisted for the Booker?Ībsolutely wonderful, it has brought many more readers to a story that for too long has only been known about by a minority.
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