James Tait Black memorial prize
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
The Guardian view on arts prizes: a 20th-century phenomenon?
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
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’
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
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
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
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
Angela Carter named best ever winner of James Tait Black award
The James Tait Black award chooses 1984 novel Nights at the Circus from nearly a century's worth of great names
Best of the James Tait Black prize - quiz
Oldest books prize seeks best ever winner
Fiona MacCarthy and Padgett Powell win James Tait Black prizes
Experimental novelist and biographer honoured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
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
Michael Holroyd wins James Tait Black prize 42 years after his wife
A Strange Eventful History wins award for biographer, more than four decades after spouse Margaret Drabble took the fiction honour
Shortlists announced for James Tait Black Memorial prizes
Biographers and novelists contend for the UK's oldest book prizes
Contenders line up for UK's oldest book prize
Mohsin Hamid and John Burnside are among authors shortlisted for the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial prizes
Cormac McCarthy bestseller wins James Tait Black
The American author Cormac McCarthy, long revered for the hardbitten poetry of his novels, has won the UK's oldest and most literary of book awards.
Literary world applauds Rushdie knighthood
Salman Rushdie has amassed for himself a fair number of distinctions over the years, among them the Booker of Bookers prize, the Whitbread novel award (twice), the James Tait Black memorial prize, and a fatwa from the Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his immediate assassination.
A prize, at last, for McEwan novel
McEwan's Saturday wins UK's oldest literary prize
Ali Smith hits the shortlists again
Ali Smith's The Accidental continues to impress awards panels, today making the shortlist of the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial prize along with Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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