First awarded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction is one of the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. The award is based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the winner is chosen by the Professor of English Literature at the University with the assistance of PhD students.
Those I have read are in red. Those on my TBR shelf are in blue. If you are also working on this list, and would like your related posts linked here, please leave a comment with links and I will list them below.
2018 Crudo by Olivia Lang
2017 Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams
2016 The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
2015 You Don’t Have to Live Like This by Benjamin Markovits
2014 In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman
2013 Harvest by Jim Crace
2012 The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
2011 You and Me by Padgett Powell
2010 The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
2009 The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt
2008 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (reviewed here)
2007 Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
2006 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2005 Saturday by Ian McEwan
2004 GB84 by David Peace
2003 Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
2002 The Corrections by Jonathon Franzen
2001 Something Like a House by Sid Smith
2000 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
1999 Renegade or Halo2 by Timothy Mo
1998 Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
1997 Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift and Justine by Alice Thompson
1995 The Prestige by Christopher Priest (reviewed here)
1994 The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
1993 Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
1992 Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
1991 Downriver by Iain Sinclair
1990 Brazzeville Beach by William Boyd (reviewed here)
1989 A Disaffection by James Kelman
1988 A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read
1987 The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown
1986 Persephone by Jenny Joseph
1985 Winter Garden by Robert Edric
1984 Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard and Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1983 Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates
1982 On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
1981 Midnight's Children (reviewed here) and The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
1980 Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
1979 Darkness Visible by William Golding
1978 Plumb by Maurice Gee
1977 The Honorable Schoolboy by John le Carre
1976 Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
1975 The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
1974 Monsieur, or The Prince Of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell
1973 The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
1972 G by John Berger (reviewed here)
1971 A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer
1970 The Bird of Paradise by Lily Powell
1969 Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
1968 The Gasteropod by Maggie Ross
1967 Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
1966 Such by Christine Brooke-Rose and Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
1965 The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark (reviewed here)
1964 The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
1963 A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles
1962 Act of Destruction by Ronald Hardy
1961 The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
1960 Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner
1959 The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
1958 The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot by Angus Wilson
1957 At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
1956 The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley
1955 Mother and Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1954 The New Men and The Masters (in sequence) by C. P. Snow
1953 Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
1952 Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
1951 Father Goose by W. C. Chapman-Mortimer
1950 Along the Valley by Robert Henriquez (out of print)
1949 The Far Cry by Emma Smith
1948 The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
1947 Eustace and Hilda by L. P. Hartley
1946 Poor Man's Tapestry by G. Oliver Onions
1945 Travellers by L. A. G. Strong
1944 Young Tom by Forrest Reid
1943 Tales From Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin
1942 Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en (translation by Arthur Whaley)
1941 A House of Children by Joyce Cary
1940 The Voyage by Charles Morgan
1939 After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
1938 A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours by C. S. Forester
1937 Highland River by Neil M. Gunn
1936 South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1935 The Root and the Flower by L. H. Myers
1934 I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves
1933 England, Their England by A. G. Macdonell
1932 Boomerang by Helen Simpson
1931 Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien
1930 Miss Mole by E. H. Young
1929 The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley
1928 Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
1927 Portrait of Clare by Francis Brett Young
1926 Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
1925 The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
1924 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
1923 Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
1922 Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
1921 Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
1920 The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence
1919 The Secret City by Hugh Walpole
NOTE
List updated on December 31, 2018.
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Thank you for listing the James Tait Black Memorial Prize winners. I enjoy coming to your blog. I hope you're giving another challenge. I would like to try again.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but the winners of this award look more interesting to me than a lot of others. I may have to play with this list!
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Tea -- Thanks! I am going to do the Battle of the Prizes Challenge again in 2010. I am also going to add a British version, pitting this prize against the Booker. I hope you join in!
ReplyDeleteLezlie -- These books appeal to me too. For me, it's a combination of books I am familiar with and really like and those I have never heard of at all. I feel like I will enjoy the ones I've never heard of because the list includes some favorites.
I've never heard of the prize, but the books sure look interesting!
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