1andyl
Awarded since 1919 this is Scotland's most prestigious and the U.K.'s oldest literary awards. An award is made for fiction and biography.
2sycoraxpine
Does anyone who has read Saturday, the 2005 Fiction winner, have an endorsement or a warning to give? I have heard both positive and negative reviews so far, so it continues to sit on my shelf, unread.
4LizzySiddal
I meant to add that 1990's JTB winner Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd is a cracking read.
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I have to agree that Saturday is disappointing. I found it unconvincing and implausible, and abandoned it before the end, which I very rarely do.
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I enjoyed it. It got better as it went on. I don't think it is meant to be realistic.
7amandameale
I loved Saturday. To me it was a perfect novel, and plausible too. I adored how McEwan covered the minutiae (physical and emotional) of one day, and created an entire novel from that.
9avaland
Last twenty years or so of winners...
2005 Ian McEwan
Saturday
2004 David Peace
GB84
2003 Andrew O'Hagan
Personality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie
1997 Andrew Miller
Ingenious Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift
Last Orders
1996 Alice Thompson
Justine
1995 Christopher Priest
The Prestige
1994 Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star
1993 Caryl Phillips
Crossing the River
1992 Rose Tremain
Sacred Country
1991 Ian Sinclair
Downriver
1990 William Boyd
Brazzaville Beach
1989 James Kelman
A Disaffection
1988 Piers Paul Reid
A Season in the West
1987 George Mackay Brown
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
1986 Jenny Joseph
Persephone
1985 Robert Edric
Winter Garden (sorry, Touchstones didn't work for the last two titles...no match came up...)
2005 Ian McEwan
Saturday
2004 David Peace
GB84
2003 Andrew O'Hagan
Personality
2002 Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
2001 Sid Smith
Something Like a House
2000 Zadie Smith
White Teeth
1999 Timothy Mo
Renegade or Halo2
1998 Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie
1997 Andrew Miller
Ingenious Pain 1914
1996 Graham Swift
Last Orders
1996 Alice Thompson
Justine
1995 Christopher Priest
The Prestige
1994 Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star
1993 Caryl Phillips
Crossing the River
1992 Rose Tremain
Sacred Country
1991 Ian Sinclair
Downriver
1990 William Boyd
Brazzaville Beach
1989 James Kelman
A Disaffection
1988 Piers Paul Reid
A Season in the West
1987 George Mackay Brown
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
1986 Jenny Joseph
Persephone
1985 Robert Edric
Winter Garden (sorry, Touchstones didn't work for the last two titles...no match came up...)
10avaland
2006 Cormac McCarthy, The Road was awarded August 2007.
The winner for 2007 will be awarded this August (2008)
The winner for 2007 will be awarded this August (2008)
11avaland
Winning biographies over the last ten years (the award is given for the best biography and best work of fiction):
2006 Byron Rogers - The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
2005 Sue Prideaux - Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream
2004 Jonathan Bate - John Clare: A Biography
2003 Janet Browne - Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place
2002 Jenny Uglow - The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
2001 Robert Skidelsky - John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946
2000 Martin Amis - Experience
1999 Kathryn Hughes - George Eliot: The Last Victorian
1998 Peter Ackroyd - The Life of Thomas More
Here's the prize homepage.
2006 Byron Rogers - The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas
2005 Sue Prideaux - Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream
2004 Jonathan Bate - John Clare: A Biography
2003 Janet Browne - Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place
2002 Jenny Uglow - The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
2001 Robert Skidelsky - John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946
2000 Martin Amis - Experience
1999 Kathryn Hughes - George Eliot: The Last Victorian
1998 Peter Ackroyd - The Life of Thomas More
Here's the prize homepage.
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The shortlists for this year's prizes were announced today.
Biography:
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager
Fiction:
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Guardian has an article about the announcement:
Shortlists announced for James Tait Black Memorial prizes
Biography:
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
Arthur Miller by Christopher Bigsby
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager
Fiction:
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Guardian has an article about the announcement:
Shortlists announced for James Tait Black Memorial prizes
13kiwidoc
Out of that list I have read A Mercy and The Secret Scripture and personally preferred the latter.
In the non-fiction pile, I really like the look of the Chagall biography and the Holroyd book. I would love to hear if anyone has read any of the list.
In the non-fiction pile, I really like the look of the Chagall biography and the Holroyd book. I would love to hear if anyone has read any of the list.
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I (and my bookgroup) are reading Sheila Rowbotham's Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love. We haven't discussed it yet, but the email comments have been very enthusiastic. I'm finding it wonderfully written, and Carpenter himself (1844-1929) was such a fascinating man! His interests were broad, but focussed around social justice, and in many of his positions he was about one hundred years before his time. Certainly an historical figure who deserves the close examination that Sheila Rowbotham gives him.
I (and my bookgroup) are reading Sheila Rowbotham's Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love. We haven't discussed it yet, but the email comments have been very enthusiastic. I'm finding it wonderfully written, and Carpenter himself (1844-1929) was such a fascinating man! His interests were broad, but focussed around social justice, and in many of his positions he was about one hundred years before his time. Certainly an historical figure who deserves the close examination that Sheila Rowbotham gives him.
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Thanks to toolatedave for making us aware of the award announcement.
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry is this year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The biography winner is A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd. Interestingly, the Guardian notes that Holroyd's wife, Margaret Drabble, won the fiction award 42 years ago for her novel Jerusalem the Golden.
Michael Holroyd wins James Tait Black prize 42 years after his wife
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry is this year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The biography winner is A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd. Interestingly, the Guardian notes that Holroyd's wife, Margaret Drabble, won the fiction award 42 years ago for her novel Jerusalem the Golden.
Michael Holroyd wins James Tait Black prize 42 years after his wife
17kidzdoc
The shortlist for this year's awards was announced yesterday:
The five shortlisted works for the fiction prize are:
* Strangers by Anita Brookner
* The Children’s Book by A.S Byatt
* Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
* The Selected Works of T.S Spivet by Reif Larsen
* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The five books competing for the £10,000 biography prize are:
* Cheever: A life by Blake Bailey
* William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
* Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
* A Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan by Jann Parry
* The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
Book prize shortlist revealed
The five shortlisted works for the fiction prize are:
* Strangers by Anita Brookner
* The Children’s Book by A.S Byatt
* Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
* The Selected Works of T.S Spivet by Reif Larsen
* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The five books competing for the £10,000 biography prize are:
* Cheever: A life by Blake Bailey
* William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
* Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
* A Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan by Jann Parry
* The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
Book prize shortlist revealed
18kiwidoc
Thanks for posting the list, Darryl. It is interesting to see the same names and titles appearing again. I wonder if the different prizes select on certain criteria.
19kidzdoc
Karen, I posted criteria for the award on my thread in the 75 books group. If I remember correctly, the books have to be published in the UK in English in the preceding year. The nationality of the authors is not relevant; Cormac McCarthy was the last American winner fot the fiction award, for his novel "The Road".
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The winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, the oldest literary awards in the UK, were announced earlier today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Prize for Fiction was awarded to A.S. Byatt for her novel The Children's Book, and John Carey won the Prize for Biography for William Golding: The Man Who Wrote "Lord Of The Flies".
James Tait Black Prize winners announced
AS Byatt and John Carey win oldest book prizes
James Tait Black Prize winners announced
AS Byatt and John Carey win oldest book prizes
21amandameale
Thanks kidzdoc!
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Old news, but this hadn't been updated from last year
Winners:
Fiction: Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
Non-fiction: Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
Winners:
Fiction: Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
Non-fiction: Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China
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http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/jamestaitblack-150512
Shortlist has been announced:
American historian and critic Manning Marable, who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has been shortlisted in the biography category for the James Tait Black Prizes.
Marable’s book - Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - was published just three days after his death in April 2011.
He is among four writers listed for the £10,000 best biography prize - one of two prizes awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for books published during the previous year.
The other biographical works on the shortlist are:
Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson
The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries, which also won the 2011 Wolfson History Prize.
Fiction on show
ManBooker Prize nominee A.D. Miller is one of four writers listed in the best work of fiction category, which also carries a £10,000 prize.
London-born Miller, a former journalist for The Economist, is listed for his debut novel Snowdrops.
The three other novels competing for the fiction prize are:
Solace by Belinda McKeon
You and I by Padgett Powell
There But For The by Ali Smith, who is nominated here for the second time.
The quality of works we considered this year was top notch, which made the shortlisting process even more difficult.
Professor Jonathan Wild
Deputy Director for University's Centre for the History of the Book
Shortlist has been announced:
American historian and critic Manning Marable, who was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, has been shortlisted in the biography category for the James Tait Black Prizes.
Marable’s book - Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention - was published just three days after his death in April 2011.
He is among four writers listed for the £10,000 best biography prize - one of two prizes awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for books published during the previous year.
The other biographical works on the shortlist are:
Ben Jonson: A Life by Ian Donaldson
The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries, which also won the 2011 Wolfson History Prize.
Fiction on show
ManBooker Prize nominee A.D. Miller is one of four writers listed in the best work of fiction category, which also carries a £10,000 prize.
London-born Miller, a former journalist for The Economist, is listed for his debut novel Snowdrops.
The three other novels competing for the fiction prize are:
Solace by Belinda McKeon
You and I by Padgett Powell
There But For The by Ali Smith, who is nominated here for the second time.
The quality of works we considered this year was top notch, which made the shortlisting process even more difficult.
Professor Jonathan Wild
Deputy Director for University's Centre for the History of the Book
24geocroc
The winners of this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prizes were announced over the weekend at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The fiction prize has been won by Padgett Powell for You And I, whilst the biography prize has gone to Fiona MacCarthy for The Last Pre-Raphaelite.
In addition, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the study of English Literature at The University of Edinburgh, a special award has been launched for the "Best of the James Tait Black" in fiction. The prize has been running for 93 years, so there are plenty of books in contention. A shortlist is due to be announced in the autumn, with the winner revealed in December.
The fiction prize has been won by Padgett Powell for You And I, whilst the biography prize has gone to Fiona MacCarthy for The Last Pre-Raphaelite.
In addition, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the study of English Literature at The University of Edinburgh, a special award has been launched for the "Best of the James Tait Black" in fiction. The prize has been running for 93 years, so there are plenty of books in contention. A shortlist is due to be announced in the autumn, with the winner revealed in December.
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Thanks for posting the winning titles, geocroc.
The "Best of James Tait Black" sounds very interesting; I'll be eager to see which books are selected for the shortlist. Wikipedia's James Tait Black Memorial Prize page includes a complete list of winners; I've read six of the winning titles:
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1993 Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
2000 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan
2008 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2009 The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
I'd give my top vote to Midnight's Children.
The "Best of James Tait Black" sounds very interesting; I'll be eager to see which books are selected for the shortlist. Wikipedia's James Tait Black Memorial Prize page includes a complete list of winners; I've read six of the winning titles:
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1993 Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
2000 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan
2008 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2009 The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
I'd give my top vote to Midnight's Children.
26geocroc
Yes, there's a lot of books and authors I've not heard off. I've only managed to read four of them
1984: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
2005: Saturday by Ian McEwan
2008: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2009: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Although I also have GB84 by David Peace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy in my 'to read' pile. I'm also tempted to pick up a copy of The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown having been to Orkney earlier this year.
1984: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
2005: Saturday by Ian McEwan
2008: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
2009: The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Although I also have GB84 by David Peace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy in my 'to read' pile. I'm also tempted to pick up a copy of The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown having been to Orkney earlier this year.
27geocroc
The shortlist for the Best of the James Tait Black has now been announced. Six books from three living authors and three who are no longer with us. The books are:
Nights at The Circus by Angrla Carter
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Mandlebaum Gate by Murial Spark
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Crossing The River by Caryl Phillips
Nights at The Circus by Angrla Carter
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Mandlebaum Gate by Murial Spark
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Crossing The River by Caryl Phillips
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I've read 14 of the J. T. Black winners. I'm rather surprised that A Passage to India, Midnight's Children, and The Corrections didn't make the shortlist. I would have joined Darryl in voting for Midnight's Children.
Of the shortlisted books I would vote for The Heart of the Matter, but I haven't read the ones by Spark, Kelman and Phillips.
Of the shortlisted books I would vote for The Heart of the Matter, but I haven't read the ones by Spark, Kelman and Phillips.
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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter was named the best-ever winner of the James Tait Black Award. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/06/angela-carter-uk-oldest-literary-pri...
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The 2013 shortlists for the James Tait Black Prizes have been announced.
Novels:
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
Biography
Portrait of a Novel by Michael Gorra
The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
Circulation by Thomas Wright
Novels:
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn
Leaving The Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
Biography
Portrait of a Novel by Michael Gorra
The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod
Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie
Circulation by Thomas Wright
31kidzdoc
Thanks for posting the shortlists, geocroc. I haven't read and don't own any of the novels on the shortlist, but I have read Joseph Anton and Circulation, which won last year's Wellcome Trust Book Prize; both books were excellent.
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I've just noticed that the 2013 winners of the James Tait Black Prizes have been announced.
The fiction winner is Alan Warner for The Deadman's Pedal. Meanwhile the Biography award has gone to Tanya Harrod for The Last Sane Man.
The fiction winner is Alan Warner for The Deadman's Pedal. Meanwhile the Biography award has gone to Tanya Harrod for The Last Sane Man.
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The 2014 shortlists for the James Tait Black Prizes have now been revealed by Edinburgh University.
Novels:
Harvest by Jim Crace
Benediction by Kent Haruf
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Biographies
The Boys in the Boat: An Epic True-Life Journey to the Heart of Hitler’s Berlin by Daniel James Brown
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
Penelope Fitzgerald: A life by Hermione Lee
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare.
So as for the novels a Booker shortlisted title, a couple from the Folio shortlist, and two on the Bailey's Prize.
Novels:
Harvest by Jim Crace
Benediction by Kent Haruf
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Biographies
The Boys in the Boat: An Epic True-Life Journey to the Heart of Hitler’s Berlin by Daniel James Brown
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
Penelope Fitzgerald: A life by Hermione Lee
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare.
So as for the novels a Booker shortlisted title, a couple from the Folio shortlist, and two on the Bailey's Prize.
35geocroc
The winners have now been announced. Taking the Novel Prize is Jim Crace for Harvest, whislt the Biography Prize has gone to Hermione Lee for Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
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An exciting mix of debut and early career writers form the shortlist for Britain's oldest literary awards.
The four novels competing for the fiction prize are:
•Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey
•Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
•In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
•We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
The shortlisted works for the biography section are:
•The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson
•In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
•Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
•Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness
The winners of the prize will be announced in August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, in the heart of the first UNESCO World City of Literature.
The four novels competing for the fiction prize are:
•Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey
•Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
•In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
•We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
The shortlisted works for the biography section are:
•The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson
•In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies
•Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes
•Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness
The winners of the prize will be announced in August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, in the heart of the first UNESCO World City of Literature.
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The Fiction winner was In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman while the Biography winner was
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson
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Two prizes are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures for books published during the previous year – one for the best work of fiction and the other for the best biography.
James Shapiro’s book, William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear was chosen for the £10,000 biography prize from a shortlist that featured:
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare
Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Benjamin Markovits's novel, You Don’t Have to Live Like this, topped a shortlist with three other writers competing for the £10,000 fiction prize that included:
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber)
The First Bad Man by Miranda July (Canongate).
James Shapiro’s book, William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear was chosen for the £10,000 biography prize from a shortlist that featured:
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare
Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett by Sarah Knights
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
Benjamin Markovits's novel, You Don’t Have to Live Like this, topped a shortlist with three other writers competing for the £10,000 fiction prize that included:
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber)
The First Bad Man by Miranda July (Canongate).
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The winners of the Prizes, presented annually by the University of Edinburgh, was announced on August 14 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
•A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
•What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
•The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
•The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
The shortlisted biographies are:
•The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
•A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters
•A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby by Joe Moshenska
•Rasputin by Douglas Smith
Eimear McBride wins James Tait Black prize for The Lesser Bohemians
The £10,000 prize for biographywas won by Laura Cumming for The Vanishing Man.
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
•A Country Road, A Tree by Jo Baker
•What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
•The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
•The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
The shortlisted biographies are:
•The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez by Laura Cumming
•A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters
•A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby by Joe Moshenska
•Rasputin by Douglas Smith
Eimear McBride wins James Tait Black prize for The Lesser Bohemians
The £10,000 prize for biographywas won by Laura Cumming for The Vanishing Man.
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James Tait Black Prizes. 2019
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
Murmur by Will Eaves
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The four biographies shortlisted for the £10,000 prize are:
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind by Susannah Walker
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
Murmur by Will Eaves
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The four biographies shortlisted for the £10,000 prize are:
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind by Susannah Walker
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
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Olivia Laing, who this weekend won the £10,000 James Tait Black award for her debut novel Crudo
Lindsey Hilsum, who won the biography award,
Lindsey Hilsum, who won the biography award,
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Ducks, Newburyport' by Lucy Ellmann and 'The Photographer at Sixteen: The Death and Life of a Fighter' by George Szirtes won the fiction and biography prizes.
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James Tait Black 2021 - Fiction shortlist
The four books shortlisted for the fiction prize are:
Alligator & Other Stories By Dima Alzayat;
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lote by Shola von Reinhold, was the winner
The four books shortlisted for the fiction prize are:
Alligator & Other Stories By Dima Alzayat;
The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lote by Shola von Reinhold, was the winner
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James Tait Black 2021 - Biography shortlist
The four biographies shortlisted for the prize are:
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, was the winner
The four biographies shortlisted for the prize are:
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, was the winner
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For completeness 2010 awards
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
La Rochelle by Michael Nath
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The shortlisted works for the biography section are:
Fordlandia: the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
The four novels competing for the £10,000 fiction prize are:
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
La Rochelle by Michael Nath
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
The shortlisted works for the biography section are:
Fordlandia: the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
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Fiction list
The awards – presented by the University since 1919 – are the only major British book prizes judged by literature scholars and students.
The four novels shortlisted for the £10,000 fiction prize 2022 are:
English Magic by Uschi Gatward
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Biography list
The four biographies shortlisted for the £10,000 prize 2022 are:
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri
In Memory of Memory: A Romance by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
The awards – presented by the University since 1919 – are the only major British book prizes judged by literature scholars and students.
The four novels shortlisted for the £10,000 fiction prize 2022 are:
English Magic by Uschi Gatward
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
A Shock by Keith Ridgway
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Biography list
The four biographies shortlisted for the £10,000 prize 2022 are:
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri
In Memory of Memory: A Romance by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson