James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

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2017     Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
2016     The lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride
2015     You don’t have to live like this : a novel by Benjamin Markovits
2014     In the light of what we know by Zia Haider Rahman
2013     Harvest by Jim Crace
2012     The deadman's pedal by Alan Warner
2011     You + I by Padgett Powell (American title: You & me : a novel)
2010     The lotus eaters by Tatjana Soli
2009     The children's book by A. S. Byatt
2008     The secret scripture by Sebastian Barry
2007     Our horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
2006     The road by Cormac McCarthy
2005     Saturday by Ian McEwan
2004     GB84 by David Peace
2003     Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
2002     The corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2001     Something like a house by Sid Smith
2000     White teeth by Zadie Smith
1999     Renegade or Halo2 by Timothy Mo
1998     Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
1997     Ingenious pain by Andrew Miller
1996     Joint Award: Last orders by Graham Swift; Justine by Alice Thompson
1995     The prestige by Christopher Priest
1994     The folding star by Alan Hollinghurst
1993     Crossing the river by Caryl Phillips
1992     Sacred country by Rose Tremain
1991     Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath : a narrative in twelve tales by Iain Sinclair
1990     Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
1989     A disaffection by James Kelman
1988     A season in the west by Piers Paul Read
1987     The golden bird : two Orkney stories by George Mackay Brown
1986     Persephone by Jenny Joseph
1985     Winter garden by Robert Edric
1984     Joint Award: Empire of the sun by J. G. Ballard and Nights at the circus by Angela Carter
1983     Allegro postillions by Jonathan Keates
1982     On the black hill by Bruce Chatwin
1981     Joint Award: Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie and The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
1980     Waiting for the barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
1979     Darkness visible by William Golding
1978     Plumb by Maurice Gee
1977     The honourable schoolboy by John Le Carré
1976     Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
1975     The great Victorian collection by Brian Moore
1974     Monsieur; or The prince of darkness by Lawrence Durrell
1973     The black prince by Iris Murdoch
1972     G : a novel by John Berger
1971     A guest of honour by Nadine Gordimer
1970     The bird of paradise by Lily Powell
1969     Eva Trout; or, Changing scenes by Elizabeth Bowen
1968     The gasteropod by Maggie Ross
1967     Jerusalem the golden by Margaret Drabble
1966     Joint Award: Such by Christine Brooke-Rose and Langrishe, go down by Aidan Higgins
1965     The Mandelbaum gate by Muriel Spark
1964     The ice saints by Frank Tuohy
1963     A slanting light by Gerda Charles
1962     Act of destruction by Ronald Hardy
1961     The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
1960     Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner
1959     The devil's advocate by Morris West
1958     The middle age of Mrs. Eliot by Angus Wilson
1957     At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
1956     The towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley
1955     Mother and son by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1954     The new men and The masters, in sequence, by C. P. Snow
1953     Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
1952     Men at arms by Evelyn Waugh
1951     Father Goose by W. C. Chapman-Mortimer
1950     Along the valley by Robert Henriquez
1949     The far cry by Emma Smith
1948     The heart of the matter by Graham Greene
1947     Eustace and Hilda by L. P. Hartley
1946     Poor man's tapestry by G. Oliver Onions
1945     Travellers by L. A. G. Strong
1944     Young Tom; or Very mixed company by Forrest Reid
1943     Tales from Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin
1942     Monkey by Wu Ch'eng-en by Arthur Whaley
1941     A house of children by Joyce Cary
1940     The voyage by Charles Morgan
1939     After many a summer dies the swan by Aldous Huxley
1938     A ship of the line and Flying colours by C. S. Forester
1937     Highland River by Neil M. Gunn
1936     South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1935     The root and the flower by L. H. Myers
1934     I, Claudius and Claudius the god by Robert Graves
1933     England, their England by A. G. Macdonell
1932     Boomerang by Helen Simpson
1931     Without my cloak by Kate O'Brien
1930     Miss Mole by Emily Hilda Young
1929     The good companions by J. B. Priestley
1928     Memoirs of a fox-hunting man by Siegfried Sassoon
1927     Portrait of Clare by Francis Brett Young
1926     Adam's breed by Radclyffe Hall
1925     The informer : a novel by Liam O'Flaherty
1924     A passage to India by E. M. Forster
1923     Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
1922     Lady into fox by David Garnett
1921     Memoirs of a midget by Walter de la Mare
1920     The lost girl by D. H. Lawrence
1919     The secret city by Hugh Walpole