James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards.[1] Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband,[2] James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd.[3] Prizes are awarded in two categories: Fiction and Biography. A Drama prize was awarded from 2013-2019.
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The Secret City
Hugh Walpole · 1919 · 1 list
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The Lost Girl
D.H. Lawrence · 1920 · 1 list
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Memoirs of a Midget
Walter de la Mare · 1921 · 1 list
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Lady into Fox
David Garnett · 1922 · 2 lists
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Riceyman Steps
Arnold Bennett · 1923 · 1 list
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster · 1924 · 18 lists
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The Informer
Liam O'Flaherty · 1925 · 1 list
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Adam's Breed
Radclyffe Hall · 1926 · 1 list
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Portrait of Clare
Francis Brett Young · 1927 · 1 list
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Siegfried Sassoon · 1928 · 3 lists
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The Good Companions
J.B. Priestley · 1929 · 1 list
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Miss Mole
E. H. Young · 1930 · 1 list
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Without My Cloak
Kate O'Brien · 1931 · 2 lists
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Boomerang
Helen de Guerry Simpson · 1932 · 1 list
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England, Their England
A. G. Macdonell · 1933 · 1 list
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I, Claudius and Claudius the God
Robert Graves · 2000 · 1 list
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The Root and the Flower
Leo Myers · 1 list
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South Riding
Winifred Holtby · 1936 · 1 list
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Highland River
Neil M. Gunn · 1937 · 1 list
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A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours
C.S. Forester · 1950 · 1 list
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After Many a Summer
Aldous Huxley · 1939 · 1 list
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The Voyage
Charles Morgan · 1940 · 1 list
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A House of Children
Joyce Cary · 1941 · 1 list
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Translation of Monkey
Arthur Waley · 1 list
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Tales from Bective Bridge
Mary Lavin · 1942 · 1 list
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Young Tom
Forrest Reid · 1944 · 1 list
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Travellers
L. A. G. Strong · 1945 · 1 list
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Poor Man's Tapestry
Oliver Onions · 1946 · 1 list
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Eustace and Hilda
L. P. Hartley · 1947 · 1 list
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The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene · 1948 · 6 lists
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The Far Cry
Emma Smith · 1949 · 1 list
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Through the Valley
Robert Henriques · 1950 · 1 list
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Father Goose
Chapman Mortimer · 1951 · 1 list
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Men at Arms
Evelyn Waugh · 1952 · 1 list
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Troy Chimneys
Margaret Kennedy · 1952 · 1 list
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The New Men and The Masters
C.P. Snow · 1985 · 1 list
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Mother and Son
Ivy Compton-Burnett · 1955 · 1 list
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The Towers of Trebizond
Rose Macaulay · 1956 · 1 list
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At Lady Molly's
Anthony Powell · 1957 · 1 list
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The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot
Angus Wilson · 1958 · 1 list
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The Devil's Advocate
Morris West · 1959 · 1 list
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Imperial Caesar
Rex Warner · 1964 · 1 list
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The Ha-Ha
Jennifer Dawson · 1985 · 1 list
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Act of Destruction
Ronald Hardy · 1962 · 1 list
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A Slanting Light
Gerda Charles · 1963 · 1 list
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The Ice Saints
Frank Tuohy · 1964 · 1 list
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The Mandelbaum Gate
Muriel Spark · 1965 · 1 list
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Such
Christine Brooke-Rose · 1966 · 1 list
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Langrishe, Go Down
Aidan Higgins · 1966 · 1 list
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Jerusalem the Golden
Margaret Drabble · 1967 · 1 list
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The Gasteropod
Maggie Ross · 1968 · 1 list
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Eva Trout
Elizabeth Bowen · 1968 · 2 lists
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The Bird of Paradise
Lily Powell · 1970 · 1 list
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A Guest of Honour
Nadine Gordimer · 1970 · 1 list
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G
John Berger · 1953 · 4 lists
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The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch · 1973 · 3 lists
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Monsieur: or, The Prince of Darkness
Lawrence Durrell · 1974 · 1 list
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The Great Victorian Collection
Brian Moore · 1975 · 2 lists
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Doctor Copernicus
John Banville · 1976 · 1 list
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The Honourable Schoolboy
John Le Carré · 1977 · 2 lists
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Plumb
Maurice Gee · 1978 · 1 list
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Darkness Visible
William Golding · 1979 · 1 list
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Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee · 1980 · 4 lists
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Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
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The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux · 1981 · 1 list
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On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin · 1982 · 2 lists
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Allegro Postillions
Jonathan Keates · 1983 · 2 lists
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Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard · 1984 · 3 lists
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Nights at the Circus
Angela Carter · 1984 · 5 lists
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Winter Garden
Robert Edric · 1985 · 1 list
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Persephone
Jenny Joseph · 1986 · 1 list
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The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories
George Mackay Brown · 1987 · 1 list
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A Season in the West
Piers Paul Read · 1988 · 1 list
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A Disaffection
James Kelman · 1989 · 2 lists
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Brazzaville Beach
William Boyd · 1990 · 1 list
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Downriver
Iain Sinclair · 1991 · 2 lists
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Sacred Country
Rose Tremain · 1992 · 1 list
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Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips · 1993 · 1 list
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The Folding Star
Alan Hollinghurst · 1994 · 2 lists
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The Prestige
Christopher Priest · 1995 · 2 lists
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Last Orders
Graham Swift · 1996 · 2 lists
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Justine
Alice Thompson · 1996 · 1 list
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Ingenious Pain
Andrew Miller · 1997 · 2 lists
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Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge · 1998 · 1 list
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Renegade, or Halo2
Timothy Mo · 1999 · 1 list
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000 · 17 lists
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Something Like a House
Sid Smith · 2001 · 1 list
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
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Personality
Andrew O'Hagan · 2003 · 1 list
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GB84
David Peace · 2004 · 1 list
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Saturday
Ian McEwan · 1996 · 4 lists
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · 14 lists
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Our Horses in Egypt
Rosalind Belben · 2008 · 1 list
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The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry · 2008 · 4 lists
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The Children's Book
A. S. Byatt · 1998 · 2 lists
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The Lotus Eaters
Tatjana Soli · 2010 · 1 list
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You and I
Padgett Powell · 1 list
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The Deadman's Pedal
Alan Warner · 1999 · 1 list
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In the Light of What We Know
Zia Haider Rahman · 2014 · 1 list
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You Don't Have to Live Like This
Benjamin Markovits · 2015 · 1 list
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The Lesser Bohemians
Eimear McBride · 2016 · 2 lists
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Attrib. and other stories
Eley Williams · 2016 · 1 list
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Crudo
Olivia Laing · 2018 · 1 list
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Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann · 2019 · 1 list
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Lote
Shola von Reinhold · 2020 · 1 list
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A Shock
Keith Ridgway · 2021 · 1 list
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · 5 lists
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Praiseworthy
Alexis Wright · 2024 · 2 lists
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My Heavenly Favourite
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld · 2024 · 1 list
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On the Greenwich Line
Shady Lewis · 1 list
