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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

University of Edinburgh

One of the UK's oldest literary awards, established in 1919, awarded annually in two categories—fiction and biography—for the best work published in the previous year, administered by the University of Edinburgh's English Literature department.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2025

  1. On the Greenwich Line

    Shady Lewis

    Won

2024

  1. My Heavenly Favourite

    Lucas Rijneveld

    Won

2023

  1. Praiseworthy

    Alexis Wright

    Won

2022

  1. Demon Copperhead

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Won

2021

  1. A Shock

    Keith Ridgway

    Won

2020

  1. Lote

    Shola von Reinhold

    Won

2019

  1. Ducks, Newburyport

    Lucy Ellmann

    Won

2018

  1. Crudo

    Olivia Laing

    Won

2017

  1. Attrib. and other stories

    Eley Williams

    Won

2016

  1. The Lesser Bohemians

    Eimear McBride

    Won

2015

  1. You Don't Have to Live Like This

    Benjamin Markovits

    Won

2014

  1. In the Light of What We Know

    Zia Haider Rahman

    Won

2013

  1. Harvest

    Jim Crace

    Won

2012

  1. The Deadman's Pedal

    Alan Warner

    Won

2011

  1. You and I

    Padgett Powell

    Won

2010

  1. The Lotus Eaters

    Tatjana Soli

    Won

2009

  1. The Children's Book

    A. S. Byatt

    Won

2008

  1. The Secret Scripture

    Sebastian Barry

    Won

2007

  1. Our Horses in Egypt

    Rosalind Belben

    Won

2006

  1. The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    Won

2005

  1. Saturday

    Ian McEwan

    Won

2004

  1. GB84

    David Peace

    Won

2003

  1. Personality

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Won

2002

  1. The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    Won

2001

  1. Something Like a House

    Sid Smith

    Won

2000

  1. White Teeth

    Zadie Smith

    Won

1999

  1. Renegade, or Halo2

    Timothy Mo

    Won

1998

  1. Master Georgie

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Won

1997

  1. Ingenious Pain ‡

    Andrew Miller

    Won

1996

  1. Justine

    Alice Thompson

    Won
  2. Last Orders

    Graham Swift

    Won

1995

  1. The Prestige

    Christopher Priest

    Won

1994

  1. The Folding Star

    Alan Hollinghurst

    Won

1993

  1. Crossing the River

    Caryl Phillips

    Won

1992

  1. Sacred Country

    Rose Tremain

    Won

1991

  1. Downriver

    Iain Sinclair

    Won

1990

  1. Brazzaville Beach

    William Boyd

    Won

1989

  1. A Disaffection

    James Kelman

    Won

1988

  1. A Season in the West

    Piers Paul Read

    Won

1987

  1. The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories

    George Mackay Brown

    Won

1986

  1. Persephone

    Jenny Joseph

    Won

1985

  1. Winter Garden

    Robert Edric

    Won

1984

  1. Empire of the Sun

    J. G. Ballard

    Won
  2. Nights at the Circus

    Angela Carter

    Won

1983

  1. Allegro Postillions

    Jonathan Keates

    Won

1982

  1. On the Black Hill

    Bruce Chatwin

    Won

1981

  1. Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie

    Won

  2. The Mosquito Coast

    Paul Theroux

    Won

1980

  1. Waiting for the Barbarians

    J. M. Coetzee

    Won

1979

  1. Darkness Visible

    William Golding

    Won

1978

  1. Plumb

    Maurice Gee

    Won

1977

  1. The Honourable Schoolboy

    John le Carré

    Won

1976

  1. Doctor Copernicus

    John Banville

    Won

1975

  1. The Great Victorian Collection

    Brian Moore

    Won

1974

  1. Monsieur: or, The Prince of Darkness

    Lawrence Durrell

    Won

1973

  1. The Black Prince

    Iris Murdoch

    Won

1972

  1. G.

    John Berger

    Won

1971

  1. A Guest of Honour

    Nadine Gordimer

    Won

1970

  1. The Bird of Paradise

    Lily Powell

    Won

1969

  1. Eva Trout

    Elizabeth Bowen

    Won

1968

  1. The Gasteropod

    Maggie Ross

    Won

1967

  1. Jerusalem the Golden

    Margaret Drabble

    Won

1966

  1. Langrishe, Go Down

    Aidan Higgins

    Won

  2. Such

    Christine Brooke-Rose

    Won

1965

  1. The Mandelbaum Gate

    Muriel Spark

    Won

1964

  1. The Ice Saints

    Frank Tuohy

    Won

1963

  1. A Slanting Light

    Gerda Charles

    Won

1962

  1. Act of Destruction

    Ronald Hardy

    Won

1961

  1. The Ha-Ha

    Jennifer Dawson

    Won

1960

  1. Imperial Caesar

    Rex Warner

    Won

1959

  1. The Devil's Advocate

    Morris West

    Won

1958

  1. The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot

    Angus Wilson

    Won

1957

  1. At Lady Molly's

    Anthony Powell

    Won

1956

  1. The Towers of Trebizond

    Rose Macaulay

    Won

1955

  1. Mother and Son

    Ivy Compton-Burnett

    Won

1954

  1. The New Men and The Masters

    C. P. Snow

    Won

1953

  1. Troy Chimneys

    Margaret Kennedy

    Won

1952

  1. Men at Arms

    Evelyn Waugh

    Won

1951

  1. Father Goose

    Chapman Mortimer

    Won

1950

  1. Through the Valley

    Robert Henriques

    Won

1949

  1. The Far Cry

    Emma Smith

    Won

1948

  1. The Heart of the Matter

    Graham Greene

    Won

1947

  1. Eustace and Hilda

    L. P. Hartley

    Won

1946

  1. Poor Man's Tapestry

    Oliver Onions

    Won

1945

  1. Travellers

    L. A. G. Strong

    Won

1944

  1. Young Tom

    Forrest Reid

    Won

1943

  1. Tales from Bective Bridge

    Mary Lavin

    Won

1942

  1. Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en

    Arthur Waley

    Won

1941

  1. A House of Children

    Joyce Cary

    Won

1940

  1. The Voyage

    Charles Morgan

    Won

1939

  1. After Many a Summer

    Aldous Huxley

    Won

1938

  1. A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours

    C. S. Forester

    Won

1937

  1. Highland River

    Neil M. Gunn

    Won

1936

  1. South Riding

    Winifred Holtby

    Won

1935

  1. The Root and the Flower

    Leo Myers

    Won

1934

  1. I, Claudius and Claudius the God

    Robert Graves

    Won

1933

  1. England, Their England

    A. G. Macdonell

    Won

1932

  1. Boomerang

    Helen de Guerry Simpson

    Won

1931

  1. Without My Cloak

    Kate O'Brien

    Won

1930

  1. Miss Mole

    E. H. Young

    Won

1929

  1. The Good Companions

    J. B. Priestley

    Won

1928

  1. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

    Siegfried Sassoon

    Won

1927

  1. Portrait of Clare

    Francis Brett Young

    Won

1926

  1. Adam's Breed

    Radclyffe Hall

    Won

1925

  1. The Informer

    Liam O'Flaherty

    Won

1924

  1. A Passage to India

    E. M. Forster

    Won

1923

  1. Riceyman Steps

    Arnold Bennett

    Won

1922

  1. Lady into Fox

    David Garnett

    Won

1921

  1. Memoirs of a Midget

    Walter de la Mare

    Won

1920

  1. The Lost Girl

    D. H. Lawrence

    Won

1919

  1. The Secret City

    Hugh Walpole

    Won