The annual Man Booker Prize awarding ceremony in London held Tuesday night hailed Jamaican author Marlon James as the main prize winner for his novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings." James was awarded £50,000 for his novel about the assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.

It was the 680-page novel and the author behind it that won the Man Booker Prize of 2015 at London's Guildhall. The prestigious awarding ceremony included Camilla Parker-Bowles, the Dutchess of Cornwall, presenting the award to James.

"This is so sort of ridiculous I think I'm going to wake up tomorrow and it didn't happen," the winner and 44-year-old author said upon stepping up the podium to accept his award, as quoted by AFP. James, being the first Jamaican author to receive the award, also expressed his amazement after receiving such recognition.

"Jamaica has a really, really rich literary tradition. It is surreal being the first. I hope I'm not the last and I don't think I will be," James said. Praises were given to the Jamaican-born author including one of the judges, Michael Wood.

"It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about," Wood said as quoted by AFP. "It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times," he added.

Apparently, Wood was impressed of how James was able to include 75 characters in the novel. "One of the pleasures of reading it is that you turn the page and you're not quite sure who the next narrator will be," Wood said, as quoted by BBC News.

Meanwhile, James talked about how unique "A Brief History of Seven Killings" is from all of his works. "This is the riskiest novel I've ever written not just in terms of subject matter but in terms of form," he said via AFP. "I'd be happy with two people liking it."

James also called his novel "a novel of exile" since he wrote it in Minneapolis where he currently lives as he explained that it was better for him so he could gain perspective because of the distance.

BBC said that The Man Booker shortlist included Tom McCarthy for "Satin Island," Chigozie Obioma for "The Fishermen," Sunjeev Sahota for "The Year of the Runaways," Anne Tyler for "A Spool of Blue Thread" and Hanya Yanagihara for "A Little Life."