The James Tait Black Memorial Prize
August 20, 2018 2:05 AM Subscribe
Literary prizes have been in the news, with the Nobel taking (at least) a year off, and with a graphic novel having been longlisted for the upcoming Man Booker prize (previously). Meanwhile, the UK's longest-established literary prize The James Tait Black Memorial Prize, has, with relatively little fanfare, announced the winners of its 99th annual awards, with Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams taking the fiction prize, and Craig Brown's Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret winning the prize for the best biography. Peruse a list of past winners at Wikipedia.
James Tait Black was a publisher whose accomplishments included bringing the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to print. His widow Janet Coats Black sought to preserve his memory via a bequest to establish the prize, to be awarded annually by the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh (nowadays with the assistance of postgraduate students). The inaugural winner of the fiction prize was Horace Walpole for his novel The Secret City. In 2012, an award for the best ever winner of the fiction prize went to Angela Carter, for her 1984 novel Nights at the Circus.
One of the stories from this year's fiction winner: Smote, or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You in Front of a Print By Bridget Riley.
James Tait Black was a publisher whose accomplishments included bringing the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to print. His widow Janet Coats Black sought to preserve his memory via a bequest to establish the prize, to be awarded annually by the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh (nowadays with the assistance of postgraduate students). The inaugural winner of the fiction prize was Horace Walpole for his novel The Secret City. In 2012, an award for the best ever winner of the fiction prize went to Angela Carter, for her 1984 novel Nights at the Circus.
One of the stories from this year's fiction winner: Smote, or When I Find I Cannot Kiss You in Front of a Print By Bridget Riley.
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