James Tait Black memorial prize

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Lucy Ellmann lands James Tait Black prize, 38 years after her father's win
The mostly single-sentence novel Ducks, Newburyport scoops £10,000 award for its piercing portrait of Trump’s America

Sian Cain

21, Aug, 2020 @2:30 PM

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The Guardian view on arts prizes: a 20th-century phenomenon? | Editorial
Editorial: This year’s Booker and Turner prizes tell us artists and even judges are repudiating the winner-takes-all award. It may be time to find new ways to celebrate the arts

Editorial

15, Dec, 2019 @6:25 PM

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Olivia Laing splits James Tait Black prize win with fellow shortlistees
In Crudo, her winning novel, Laing explained she had ‘said that competition has no place in art and I meant it’

Alison Flood

19, Aug, 2019 @11:47 AM

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Eimear McBride wins James Tait Black prize for The Lesser Bohemians
The Irish novelist’s ‘astonishing’ novel about the sexual awakening of a teenager with an older actor lands the UK’s oldest literary award

Alison Flood

14, Aug, 2017 @6:45 PM

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James Tait Black awards, UK's oldest book prizes, reveal 2016 winners
James Shapiro’s 1606, a detailed biography of a year in Shakespeare’s life, and Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This both receive £10,000

Sian Cain

15, Aug, 2016 @6:45 PM

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Shakespeare biography leads James Tait Black prize shortlist
James Shapiro’s 1606 gets nod for venerable honour alongside books by David Hare, Ruth Scurr and Sarah Knights

Alison Flood

21, Apr, 2016 @10:28 AM

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James Tait Black prize goes to Zia Haider Rahman's debut novel
In the Light of What We Know takes £10,000 award for story encompassing issues from war in Afghanistan to the banking crisis

Alison Flood

17, Aug, 2015 @6:45 PM

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Angela Carter named best ever winner of UK's oldest literary prize
The James Tait Black award chooses 1984 novel Nights at the Circus from nearly a century's worth of great names

Alison Flood

06, Dec, 2012 @6:30 PM

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Best of the James Tait Black prize - quiz

As Britain's oldest literary award selects its best ever winners, test your knowledge of nearly a century of great novels

22, Oct, 2012 @10:31 AM

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Oldest books prize seeks best ever winner
Graham Greene and Cormac McCarthy shortlisted among James Tait Black award winners dating back to 1919

Alison Flood

22, Oct, 2012 @9:54 AM

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Fiona MacCarthy and Padgett Powell win James Tait Black prizes

Experimental novelist and biographer honoured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Jen Bowden

25, Aug, 2012 @10:39 PM

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AS Byatt says women who write intellectual books seen as unnatural

Grande dame of literature AS Byatt criticises Orange prize for fiction saying there is no such thing as feminine subject matter

Charlotte Higgins and Caroline Davies

20, Aug, 2010 @6:37 PM

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