James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction

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Founded in 1919, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are among the oldest and most prestigious book prizes awarded for literature written in the English Language and are Britain’s oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, part of the United Kingdom, the prizes were founded by Mrs Janet Coutts Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd.

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  1. 2008
    The Secret Scripture: A Novel
    by Sebastian Barry

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  2. 2007
    Our Horses in Egypt
    by Rosalind Belben

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  3. 2006
    The Road (rough cut)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  4. 2005
    Saturday
    by Ian Mcewan

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  5. 2004
    GB84
    by David Peace

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  6. 2003
    Personality
    by Andrew O'Hagan

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  7. 2002
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  8. 2001
    Something Like a House
    by Sid Smith

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  9. 2000
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  10. 1999
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    Renegade or Halo 2
    by Timothy Mo

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  11. 1998
    Master Georgie (Bainbridge, Beryl)
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  12. 1997
    Ingenious Pain (Harvest Book)
    by Andrew Miller

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  13. 1996
    Last Orders
    by Graham Swift

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  14. 1996
    Justine
    by Alice Thompson

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  15. 1995
    The Prestige
    by Christopher Priest

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  16. 1994
    The Folding Star: A Novel
    by Alan Hollinghurst

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  17. 1993
    Crossing The River
    by Caryl Phillips

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  18. 1992
    Sacred Country
    by Rose Tremain

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  19. 1991
    Downriver
    by Iain Sinclair

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  20. 1990
    Brazzaville Beach
    by William Boyd

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  21. 1989
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    A Disaffection
    by James Kelman

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  22. 1988
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    A Season in the West
    by Piers Paul Read

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  23. 1987
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    The golden bird: Two Orkney stories
    by George Mackay Brown

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  24. 1986
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    Persephone
    by Jenny Joseph

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  25. 1985
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    Winter Garden
    by Robert Edric

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  26. 1984
    Empire of the Sun
    by J. G. Ballard

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  27. 1984
    Nights at the Circus
    by Angela Carter

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  28. 1983
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    Allegro Postillions
    by Jonathan Keates

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  29. 1982
    On the Black Hill
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  30. 1981
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  31. 1981
    The Mosquito Coast
    by Paul Theroux

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  32. 1980
    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J M Coetzee

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  33. 1979
    Darkness Visible
    by William Golding

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  34. 1978
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    Plumb
    by Maurice Gee

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  35. 1977
    The Honourable Schoolboy
    by John le Carre

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  36. 1976
    Doctor Copernicus
    by John Banville

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  37. 1975
    The Great Victorian Collection (Paladin Books)
    by Brian Moore

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  38. 1974
    Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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  39. 1973
    The Black Prince (Vintage Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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  40. 1972
    G
    by John Berger

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  41. 1971
    A Guest of Honour
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  42. 1970
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    The bird of paradise
    by Lily Powell Froissard

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  43. 1969
    Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes
    by Elizabeth Bowen

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  44. 1968
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    The Gasteropod
    by Maggie Ross

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  45. 1967
    Jerusalem the Golden
    by Margaret Drabble

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  46. 1966
    Langrishe, Go Down (Irish Literature)
    by Aidan Higgins

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  47. 1965
    The Mandelbaum Gate
    by Muriel Spark

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  48. 1964
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    The Ice Saints
    by Frank Tuohy

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  49. 1963
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    Slanting Light
    by Gerda Charles

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  50. 1962
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    Act of Destruction
    by Ronald Hardy

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ggchickapee
Portland

more than seems right — 2 years ago

If you add these up, there are more books than there are years the prize has been awarded. That is because the prize was awarded jointly a few times and because some of the prizes went to two books in a series (the Claudius books by Robert Graves, for example).