Tag: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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Iman Mersal wins James Tait Black Prize 2024
Iman Mersal’s biography Traces of Enayat, translated by Robin Moger, won the James Tait Black Prize 2024 on Friday, May 17, 2024. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were founded by Janet…
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Darryl Pinckney wins James Tait Black Prize 2023
Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan won the James Tait Black Prize 2023 on July 26, 2023. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were…
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James Tait Black Prize 2022 shortlist announced.
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Bryan Washington, and Hanif Abdurraqib are on the shortlists of the James Tait Black Prize 2022 announced on April 6, 2022. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were founded by…
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Shola von Reinhold on James Tait Black Prize 2021 shortlist.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Shola von Reinhold are on the shortlist of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2021 announced on May 4, 2021. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were founded…
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Helon Habila, Saidiya Hartman on James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020 shortlists.
Helon Habila’s Travellers and Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval are on the shortlists for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020 announced on June 22, 2020. The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, awarded for literature written in the English language, are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at…