List of winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of the premier awards for new English-language literature in Great Britain .
This list of winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize lists the winners and the winning works since the award of the prize in 1919 by Janet Coats, the widow of the publisher James Tait Black.
Prizes have been awarded for narrative literature and biographies since 1920, and since 2013 a prize in the Drama category has been awarded for the best publications of the previous year.
Narrative literature
The awards are given for the best publication of the previous year in the opinion of the jury.
1920 to 1930
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1920 to 1930 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Hugh Walpole | The Secret City (1919) | ||
| 1921 | DH Lawrence | The Lost Girl (1920) | ||
| 1922 | Walter de la Mare | Memoirs Of A Midget (1921) | ||
| 1923 | David Garnett | Lady Into Fox (1922) | ||
| 1924 | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps (1923) | ||
| 1925 | EM Forster | A Passage To India (1924); German: In search of India | ||
| 1926 | Liam O'Flaherty | The Informer (1925) | ||
| 1927 | Radclyffe Hall | Adam's Breed (1926) | ||
| 1928 | Francis Brett Young | Portrait Of Clare (1927) | ||
| 1929 | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man (1928) | ||
| 1930 | JB Priestley | The Good Companions (1929) | ||
1931 to 1940
| List of the "Fiction" winners from 1931 to 1940 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | EH Young | Miss Mole (1930) | ||
| 1932 | Kate O'Brien | Without My Cloak (1931) | ||
| 1933 | Helen Simpson | Boomerang (1932) | ||
| 1934 | AG Macdonell | England, Their England (1933) | ||
| 1935 | Robert Graves | I, Claudius and Claudius The God (1934) | ||
| 1936 | LH Myers | The Root And The Flower (1935) | ||
| 1937 | Winifred Holtby | South Riding (1936) | ||
| 1938 | Neil M. Gunn | Highland River (1937) | ||
| 1939 | CS Forester | A Ship Of The Line and Flying Colors (1938) | ||
| 1940 | Aldous Huxley | After Many A Summer Dies The Swan (1939) | ||
1941 to 1950
| List of the "Fiction" winners from 1941 to 1950 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Charles Morgan | The Voyage (1940) | ||
| 1942 | Joyce Cary | A House Of Children (1941) | ||
| 1943 | Arthur Waley | Monkey (translation of the novel The Journey to the West from the Chinese) (1942) | ||
| 1944 | Mary Lavin | Tales From Bective Bridge (1943) | ||
| 1945 | Forrest Reid | Young Tom (1944) | ||
| 1946 | LAG Strong | Travelers (1945) | ||
| 1947 | G. Oliver Onions | Poor Man's Tapestry (1946) | ||
| 1948 | LP Hartley | Eustace and Hilda (1947) | ||
| 1949 | Graham Greene | The Heart Of The Matter (1948) | ||
| 1950 | Emma Smith | The Far Cry (1949) | ||
1951 to 1960
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1951 to 1960 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Robert Henriquez | Along The Valley (1950) | ||
| 1952 | WC Chapman-Mortimer | Father Goose (1951) | ||
| 1953 | Evelyn Waugh | Men At Arms (1952) | ||
| 1954 | Margaret Kennedy | Troy Chimneys (1953) | ||
| 1955 | CP Snow | The New Men and The Masters in sequence (1954) | ||
| 1956 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Mother and Son (1955) | ||
| 1957 | Rose Macaulay | The Towers Of Trebizond (1956) | ||
| 1958 | Anthony Powell | At Lady Molly's (1957) | ||
| 1959 | Angus Wilson | The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot (1958) | ||
| 1960 | Morris L. West | The Devil's Advocate (1959) | ||
1961 to 1970
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1961 to 1970 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Rex Warner | Imperial Caesar (1960) | ||
| 1962 | Jennifer Dawson | The Ha-Ha (1961) | ||
| 1963 | Ronald Hardy | Act Of Destruction (1962) | ||
| 1964 | Gerda Charles | A Slanting Light (1963) | ||
| 1965 | Frank Tuohy | The Ice Saints (1964) | ||
| 1966 | Muriel Spark | The Almond Tree Gate (1965) | ||
| 1967 |
Christine Brooke-Rose and Aidan Higgins |
Such Langrishe, Go Down (1966) |
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| 1968 | Margaret Drabble | Jerusalem The Golden (1967) | ||
| 1969 | Maggie Ross | The Gasteropod (1968) | ||
| 1970 | Elizabeth Bowen | Eva Trout (1969) | ||
1971 to 1980
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1971 to 1980 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Lily Powell | The Bird Of Paradise (1970) | ||
| 1972 | Nadine Gordimer | A Guest Of Honor (1971) | ||
| 1973 | John Berger | G. (1972) | ||
| 1974 | Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince (1973) | ||
| 1975 | Lawrence Durrell | Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness (1974) | ||
| 1976 | Brian Moore | The Great Victorian Collection (1975) | ||
| 1977 | John Banville | Doctor Copernicus (1976) | ||
| 1978 | John le Carré | The Honorable Schoolboy (1977) | ||
| 1979 | Maurice Gee | Plumb (1978) | ||
| 1980 | William Golding | Darkness Visible (1979) | ||
1981 to 1990
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1981 to 1990 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | JM Coetzee | Waiting For The Barbarians (1980) | ||
| 1982 |
Salman Rushdie and Paul Theroux |
Midnight's Children The Mosquito Coast (1981) |
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| 1983 | Bruce Chatwin | On The Black Hill (1982) | ||
| 1984 | Jonathan Keates | Allegro Postillions (1983) | ||
| 1985 |
JG Ballard and Angela Carter |
Empire Of The Sun Nights At The Circus (1984) |
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| 1986 | Robert Edric | Winter Garden (1985) | ||
| 1987 | Jenny Joseph | Factory (1986) | ||
| 1988 | George Mackay Brown | The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) | ||
| 1989 | Piers Paul Read | A Season In The West (1988) | ||
| 1990 | James Kelman | A Disaffection (1989) | ||
1991 to 2000
| List of "Fiction" winners from 1991 to 2000 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | William Boyd | Brazzaville Beach (1990) | ||
| 1992 | Iain Sinclair | Downriver (1991) | ||
| 1993 | Rose Tremain | Sacred Country (1992) | ||
| 1994 | Caryl Phillips | Crossing The River (1993) | ||
| 1995 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star (1994) | ||
| 1996 | Christopher Priest | The Prestige (1995) | ||
| 1997 |
Graham Swift and Alice Thompson |
Last Orders Justine (1996) |
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| 1998 | Andrew Miller | Ingenious Pain (1997) | ||
| 1999 | Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie (1998) | ||
| 2000 | Timothy Mo | Renegade or Halo2 (1999) | ||
2001 to 2010
| List of the "Fiction" winners from 2001 to 2010 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth (2000) | ||
| 2002 | Sid Smith | Something Like a House (2001) | ||
| 2003 | Jonathan Franzen | The Corrections (2002) | ||
| 2004 | Andrew O'Hagan | Personality (2003) | ||
| 2005 | David Peace | GB84 (2004) | ||
| 2006 | Ian McEwan | Saturday (2005) | ||
| 2007 | Cormac McCarthy | The Road (2006) | ||
| 2008 | Rosalind Belben | Our Horses in Egypt (2007) | ||
| 2009 | Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture (2008) | ||
| 2010 | AS Byatt | The Children's Book (2009) | ||
2011 to 2018
| List of the “Fiction” winners from 2011 to 2017 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Tatjani solos | The Lotus Eaters (2010) | ||
| 2012 | Padgett Powell | You and Me (2011) | ||
| 2013 | Alan Warner | The Deadman's Pedal (2012) | ||
| 2014 | Jim Crace | Harvest (2013) | ||
| 2015 | Zia Haider Rahman | In the Light of What We Know (2014) | ||
| 2016 | Benjamin Markovits | You Don't Have to Live Like this (2015) | ||
| 2017 | Eimear McBride | The Lesser Bohemians (2016) | ||
| 2018 | Eley Williams | Attrib. and other stories (2017) | ||
biography
The awards are given for the best publication of the previous year in the opinion of the jury.
1920 to 1930
| List of "Biography" winners from 1920 to 1930 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Henry Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir (1919) | ||
| 1921 | GM Trevelyan | Lord Gray Of The Reform Bill (1920) | ||
| 1922 | Lytton Strachey | Queen Victoria (1921) | ||
| 1923 | Percy Lubbock | Earlham (1922) | ||
| 1924 | Ronald Ross | Memoirs, Etc. (1923) | ||
| 1925 | William Wilson | The House Of Airlie (1924) | ||
| 1926 | Geoffrey Scott | The Portrait Of Zelide (1925) | ||
| 1927 | Herbert Brook Workman | John Wyclif: A Study Of The English Medieval Church (1926) | ||
| 1928 | HAL Fisher | James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, OM (1927) | ||
| 1929 | John Buchan | Montrose (1928) | ||
| 1930 | David Cecil | The Stricken Deer: Or The Life Of Cowper (1929) | ||
1931 to 1940
| List of "Biography" winners from 1931 to 1940 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Francis Yeats-Brown | Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (1930) | ||
| 1932 | JYT Greig | David Hume (1931) | ||
| 1933 | Stephen Gwynn | The Life Of Mary Kingsley (1932) | ||
| 1934 | Violet Clifton | The Book Of Talbot (1933) | ||
| 1935 | JE Neale | Queen Elizabeth (1934) | ||
| 1936 | Raymond Wilson Chambers | Thomas More (1935) | ||
| 1937 | Edward Sackville-West | A Flame In Sunlight: The Life And Work Of Thomas de Quincey (1936) | ||
| 1938 | Eustace Percy | John Knox (1937) | ||
| 1939 | Edmund Chambers | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1938) | ||
| 1940 | David C. Douglas | English Scholars (1939) | ||
1941 to 1950
| List of "Biography" winners from 1941 to 1950 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | HFM Prescott | Spanish Tudor (1940) | ||
| 1942 | John Gore | King George V (1941) | ||
| 1943 | Arthur Ponsonby | Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary (1942) | ||
| 1944 | GG Coulton | Fourscore Years (1943) | ||
| 1945 | Cicely Veronica Wedgwood | William The Silent (1944) | ||
| 1946 | Dugald Sutherland MacColl | Philip Wilson Steer (1945) | ||
| 1947 | Richard Aldington | Wellington (1946) | ||
| 1948 | Charles E. Raven | English Naturalists From Neckham To Ray (1947) | ||
| 1949 | Percy A. Scholes | The Great Dr Burney (1948) | ||
| 1950 | John Connell (writer) | WE Henley (1949) | ||
1951 to 1960
| List of "Biography" winners from 1951 to 1960 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Cecil Woodham-Smith | Florence Nightingale (1950) | ||
| 1952 | Noel G. Annan | Leslie Stephen (1951) | ||
| 1953 | GM Young | Stanley Baldwin (1952) | ||
| 1954 | Carola Oman | Sir John Moore (1953) | ||
| 1955 | Keith Feiling | Warren Hastings (1954) | ||
| 1956 | RW Ketton Cremer | Thomas Gray (1955) | ||
| 1957 | St. John Greer Ervine | George Bernard Shaw (1956) | ||
| 1958 | Maurice Cranston | Life Of John Locke (1957) | ||
| 1959 | Joyce Hemlow | The History Of Fanny Burney (1958) | ||
| 1960 | Christopher Hassall | Edward Marsh (1959) | ||
1961 to 1970
| List of "Biography" winners from 1961 to 1970 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Adam Fox | The Life Of Dean Inge (1960) | ||
| 1962 | MK Ashby | Joseph Ashby Of Tysoe (1961) | ||
| 1963 | Meriol Trevor | Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter (1962) | ||
| 1964 | Georgina Battiscombe | John Keble: A Study In Limitations (1963) | ||
| 1965 | Elizabeth Longford | Victoria RI (1964) | ||
| 1966 | Mary Caroline Moorman | William Wordsworth, The Later Years 1803-1850 (1965) | ||
| 1967 | Geoffrey Keynes | The Life Of William Harvey (1966) | ||
| 1968 | Winifred Gérin | Charlotte Brontë, The Evolution Of Genius (1967) | ||
| 1969 | Gordon S. Haight | George Eliot (1968) | ||
| 1970 | Antonia Fraser | Mary, Queen of Scots (1969) | ||
1971 to 1980
| List of "Biography" winners from 1971 to 1980 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Jasper Ridley | Lord Palmerston (1970) | ||
| 1972 | Julia Namier | Lewis Namier (1971) | ||
| 1973 | Quentin Bell | Virginia Woolf (1972) | ||
| 1974 | Robin Lane Fox | Alexander The Great (1973) | ||
| 1975 | John Wain | Samuel Johnson (1974) | ||
| 1976 | Karl Miller | Cockburn's Millennium (1975) | ||
| 1977 | Ronald Hingley | A New Life Of Chekhov (1976) | ||
| 1978 | George Painter | Chateaubriand: Volume 1 - The Longed-For Tempests (1977) | ||
| 1979 | Robert Gittings | The Older Hardy (1978) | ||
| 1980 | Brian Finney | Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (1979) | ||
1981 to 1990
| List of "Biography" winners from 1981 to 1990 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Robert B. Martin | Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (1980) | ||
| 1982 | Victoria Glendinning | Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (1981) | ||
| 1983 | Richard Ellmann | James Joyce (1982) | ||
| 1984 | Alan Walker | Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years (1983) | ||
| 1985 | Lyndall Gordon | Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (1984) | ||
| 1986 | David Nokes | Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (1985) | ||
| 1987 | Felicitas Corrigan | Helen Waddell (1986) | ||
| 1988 | Ruth Dudley Edwards | Victor Gollancz: A Biography (1987) | ||
| 1989 | Brian McGuinness | Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) (1988) | ||
| 1990 | Ian Gibson | Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life (1989) | ||
1991 to 2000
| List of "Biography" winners from 1991 to 2000 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Claire Tomalin | The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens (1990) | ||
| 1992 | Adrian Desmond , James R. Moore | Darwin (1991) | ||
| 1993 | Charles Nicholl | The Reckoning: The Murder Of Christopher Marlowe (1992) | ||
| 1994 | Richard Holmes | Dr Johnson And Mr Savage (1993) | ||
| 1995 | Doris Lessing | Under My Skin (1994) | ||
| 1996 | Gitta Sereny | Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth (1995) | ||
| 1997 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996) | ||
| 1998 | RF Foster | WB Yeats: A Life Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914 (1997) | ||
| 1999 | Peter Ackroyd | The Life of Thomas More (1998) | ||
| 2000 | Kathryn Hughes | George Eliot: The Last Victorian (1999) | ||
2001 to 2010
| List of "Biography" winners from 2001 to 2010 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Martin Amis | Experience (2000) | ||
| 2002 | Robert Skidelsky | John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 (2001) | ||
| 2003 | Jenny Uglow | The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 (2002) | ||
| 2004 | Janet Browne | Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place (2003) | ||
| 2005 | Jonathan Bate | John Clare: A Biography (2004) | ||
| 2006 | Sue Prideaux | Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream (2005) | ||
| 2007 | Byron Rogers | The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of RS Thomas (2006) | ||
| 2008 | Rosemary Hill | God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) | ||
| 2009 | Michael Holroyd | A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families (2008) | ||
| 2010 | John Carey | William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (2009) | ||
2011 to 2018
| List of "Biography" winners from 2011 to 2017 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Author | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Hilary Spurling | Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China (2010) | ||
| 2012 | Fiona MacCarthy | The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (2011) | ||
| 2013 | Tanya Harrod | The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture (2012) | ||
| 2014 | Hermione Lee | Penelope Fitzgerald: A life (2013) | ||
| 2015 | Richard Benson | The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family (2014) | ||
| 2016 | James S. Shapiro | 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (2015) | ||
| 2017 | Laura Cumming | The Vanishing Man (2016) | ||
| 2018 | Craig Brown | Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret (2017) | ||
drama
The awards were given for the best production of the previous year in the opinion of the jury.
2013 to 2018
| List of the “Drama” winners from 2013 to 2017 | ||||
| Year of the award ceremony |
Artist | Work (year of first publication) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Tim Price | The Radicalization of Bradley Manning (2012) | ||
| 2014 | Rory Mullarkey | Cannibals (2013) | ||
| 2015 | Gordon Dahlquist | Tomorrow Come Today (2014) | ||
| 2016 | Gary Owen | Iphigenia in Splott (2015) | ||
| 2017 | David Ireland | Cyprus Avenue (2016) | ||
| 2018 | Tanika Gupta | Lions and Tigers (2017) | ||
Web links
- List of Laureates , University of Edinburgh website, accessed 23 August 2015
Remarks
- ^ University of Edinburgh : Fiction winners ; accessed October 22, 2016.
- ^ University of Edinburgh : Biography winners ; accessed October 22, 2016.
- ↑ title as in the list of winners ; Title actually The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World , s. World cat entry .
- ^ University of Edinburgh : Drama winners ; accessed October 22, 2016.