James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Scotland's most prestigious and the U.K.'s oldest literary awards, having been awarded since 1919. The prizes have achieved an international reputation for their recognition of literary excellence in biography and fiction.
The two prizes, each of £10,000, are awarded annually, the prizewinners being chosen by the Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Eligible works of fiction and biographies are those written in English, and first published or co-published in the United Kingdom during the calendar year of the award. The nationality of the writer is irrelevant.
Website: www.englit.ed.ac.uk/jtbinf.htm
Winners
| Year | Title | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | The Children’s Book | A S Byatt | Shortlist... |
| 2008 | The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | Shortlist... |
| 2007 | Our Horses in Egypt | Rosalind Belben | Shortlist... |
| 2006 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Shortlist... |
| 2005 | Saturday | Ian McEwan | Shortlist... |
| 2004 | GB84 | David Peace | Shortlist... |
| 2003 | Personality | Andrew O'Hagan | Shortlist... |
| 2002 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | Shortlist... |
| 2001 | Something Like A House | Sid Smith | Shortlist... |
| 2000 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | Shortlist... |