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JThe American novelist, Marlon James, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2015, wanted to change his baduality "more than anything" in his youth and underwent a grueling religious ritual to try to "chase the gay", he explains to the radio talk on Sunday.
But it was only when the writer finally turned away from the formal religion and left the Caribbean that he was able to fully accept his homobaduality and even write about it. As Desert Island RecordsLast detail published on BBC Radio 4, James details extreme evangelical exorcism, or "gay cure", which he endured in a Pentecostal church in Jamaica.
The writer, who acquired a literary fame with his third novel A brief history of seven murders, had flung himself into religion to integrate into Jamaican society and told Lauren Laverne that he did not realize he was gay.
"I was in church almost every day of the week," he said, adding that he thought God would provide a woman who would understand his struggle.
He describes the process of exorcism as "a kind of mind control": "At the time, I thought they were just chasing demons," he recalls.
James said he was sick several times during the "cure": "Then one day, he hit me," What if I get rid of the church? And it worked in a smashing way. "
Moving to the United States has allowed him to write more freely about his baduality.
"It's too good to be an atheist, but I do not think I have confidence anymore," he told Laverne.
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