http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/awards/james_tait_black.htm (lists awards through 2007)
University of Edinburgh accessed 5/18/10
2009
The prizes are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during the previous year.
The five shortlisted works for the fiction prize are:
* Strangers by Anita Brookner
* The Children’s Book by A.S Byatt -- Winner!
* Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
* The Selected Works of T.S Spivet by Reif Larsen
* Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The five books competing for the £10,000 biography prize are:
* Cheever: A life by Blake Bailey
* William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey -- Winner!
* Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
* A Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan by Jann Parry
* The English Opium Eater: A Biography of Thomas De Quincey by Robert Morrison
The winners will be announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2010.
2008
Fiction shortlist
* Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
* A Mercy by Toni Morrison
* The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry -- Winner!* A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
* Pilcrow by Adam Mars-JonesBiography shortlist
* Arthur Miller 1915-1962 by Christopher Bigsby
* A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd -- Winner!
* Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
* Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
* Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager
2007
Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben
The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Far Country by Daniel Mason
Salvage by Gee Williams
2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Seven Lies by James Lasdun
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (winner)
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
Electricity by Ray Robinson
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
2005
Praying Mantis by André Brink
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Saturday by Ian McEwan (winner)
Mother, Missing by Joyce Carol Oates
The Accidental by Ali Smith
2004
Havoc: In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
GB84 by David Peace (winner)
Psychoraag by Suhayl Saadi
2003
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan (winner)
2002
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (winner)
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
Unless by Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
2001
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Number9dream by David Mitchell
Something Like a House by Sid Smith (winner)
2000
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfolk
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (winner)
1999
The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
A Harlot's Progress by David Dabydeen
Headlong by Michael Frayn
The Harvest by Christopher Hart
Renegade or Halo 2 by Timothy Mo (winner)
1998
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (winner)
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
1997
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Feeding the Ghosts by Fred D'Aguiar
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller (winner)
1996
Last Orders by Graham Swift (winner)
Justine by Alice Thompson (winner)
1995
The Prestige by Christopher Priest (winner)
1994
The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (winner)
1993
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (winner)
1992
Sacred Country by Rose Tremain (winner)
1991
Downriver by Iain Sinclair (winner)
1990
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd (winner)
1989
A Disaffection by James Kelman (winner)
1988
A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read (winner)
1987
The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown (winner)
1986
Persephone by Jenny Joseph (winner)
1985
Winter Garden by Robert Edric (winner)
1984
Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard (winner)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (winner)
1983
Allegro Postillions by Jonathan Keates (winner)
1982
On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin (winner)
1981
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (winner)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (winner)
1980
Waiting for the Barbarians by J M Coetzee (winner)
1979
Darkness Visible by William Golding (winner)
1978
Plumb by Maurice Gee (winner)
1977
The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré (winner)
1976
Doctor Copernicus by John Banville (winner)
1975
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore (winner)
1974
Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell (winner)
1973
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch (winner)
1972
G. by John Berger (winner)
1971
A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer (winner)
1970
Lily Powell - The Bird Of Paradise - 1970
Previous Winners – Fiction
1960 - 1969
* Elizabeth Bowen - Eva Trout - 1969
* Maggie Ross - The Gasteropod - 1968
* Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem The Golden - 1967
* Joint Award: Christine Brooke-Rose - Such and Aidan Higgins - Langrishe, Go Down - 1966
* Muriel Spark - The Mandelbaum Gate - 1965
* Frank Tuohy - The Ice Saints - 1964
* Gerda Charles - A Slanting Light - 1963
* Ronald Hardy - Act Of Destruction - 1962
* Jennifer Dawson - The Ha-Ha - 1961
* Rex Warner - Imperial Caesar - 1960
1950 - 1959
* Morris West - The Devil's Advocate - 1959
* Angus Wilson - The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot - 1958
* Anthony Powell - At Lady Molly's - 1957
* Rose Macauley - The Towers Of Trebizond - 1956
* Ivy Compton-Burnett - Mother And Son - 1955
* C. P. Snow - The New Men and The Masters in sequence - 1954
* Margaret Kennedy - Troy Chimneys - 1953
* Evelyn Waugh - Men At Arms - 1952
* W. C. Chapman-Mortimer - Father Goose - 1951
* Robert Henriquez - Along The Valley - 1950
1940 - 1949
* Emma Smith - The Far Cry - 1949
* Graham Greene - The Heart Of The Matter - 1948
* L. P. Hartley - Eustace And Hilda - 1947
* G. Oliver Onions - Poor Man's Tapestry - 1946
* L. A. G. Strong - Travellers - 1945
* Forrest Reid - Young Tom - 1944
* Mary Lavin - Tales From Bectine Bridge - 1943
* Arthur Whaley - Monkey By Wu Ch'eng-en - 1942
* Joyce Cary - A House Of Children - 1941
* Charles Morgan - The Voyage - 1940
1930 - 1939
* Aldous Huxley - After Many A Summer Dies The Swan - 1939
* C. S. Forester - A Ship Of The Line and Flying Colours - 1938
* Neil M. Gunn - Highland River - 1937
* Winifred Holtby - South Riding - 1936
* L. H. Myers - The Root And The Flower - 1935
* Robert Graves - I, Claudius and Claudius The God - 1934
* A. G. Macdonell - England, Their England - 1933
* Helen Simpson - Boomerang - 1932
* Kate O'Brien - Without My Cloak - 1931
* E. H. Young - Miss Mole - 1930
1919 - 1929
* J. B. Priestley - The Good Companions - 1929
* Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man - 1928
* Francis Brett Young - Portrait Of Clare - 1927
* Radclyffe Hall - Adam's Breed - 1926
* Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer - 1925
* E. M. Forster - A Passage To India - 1924
* Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps - 1923* David Garnett - Lady Into Fox - 1922
* Walter de la Mare - Memoirs Of A Midget - 1921
* D. H. Lawrence - The Lost Girl - 1920
* Hugh Walpole - The Secret City - 1919
Previous Winners – Biography
2000 - Present
Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History: Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families - 2008
Rosemary Hill - God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain - 2007
Byron Rogers - The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas - 2006
Sue Prideaux - Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream (Yale University Press) - 2005
Jonathan Bate - John Clare: A Biography (Picador) - 2004
Janet Browne - Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place (Jonathan Cape) - 2003
Jenny Uglow The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810 (Faber) - 2002
Robert Skidelsky - John Maynard Keynes: Vol 3 Fighting For Britain 1937-1946 - 2001
Martin Amis - Experience (Jonathan Cape) - 2000
1990 - 1999
* Kathryn Hughes - George Eliot: The Last Victorian (Fourth Estate) - 1999
* Peter Ackroyd - The Life of Thomas More (Chatto & Windus) - 1998
R.F. Foster - W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914 - 1997
* Diarmaid MacCulloch - Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale) - 1996
* Gitta Sereny - Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth (Macmillan) - 1995
* Doris Lessing - Under My Skin (Harper Collins) - 1994
* Richard Holmes - Dr Johnson And Mr Savage (Hodder & Stoughton) - 1993
Charles Nicoll - The Reckoning: Murder Of Christopher Marlowe (Jonathan Cape) - 1992
* Adrian Desmond and James Moore - Darwin (Paladin) - 1991
Claire Tomalin. Invisible Woman: Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens - 1990
1980 - 1989
* Ian Gibson - Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life (Faber & Faber) - 1989
Brian McGuinness - Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921) (Duckworth) - 1988
* Ruth Dudley Edwards - Victor Gollancz: A Biography (Victor Gollancz) - 1987
* D. Felicitas Corrigan - Helen Waddell (Victor Gollancz) - 1986
* David Nokes - Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed (OUP) - 1985
* Lyndall Gordon - Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (OUP) - 1984
* Alan Walker - Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years (Faber) - 1983
* Richard Ellmann - James Joyce (OUP) - 1982
* Victoria Glendinning - Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions (Weidenfeld) - 1981
* Robert B. Martin - Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart (OUP) - 1980
1970 - 1979
* Brian Finney - Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography (Faber) - 1979
* Robert Gittings - The Older Hardy (Heinemann Educational) - 1978
George Painter. Chateaubriand, Vol.1: Longed-For Tempests (Chatto & Windus) - 1977
* Ronald Hingley - A New Life Of Chekhov (OUP) - 1976
* Karl Miller - Cockburn's Millennium (Duckworth) - 1975
* John Wain - Samuel Johnson - 1974
* Robin Lane Fox - Alexander The Great - 1973
* Quentin Bell - Virginia Woolf - 1972
* Julia Namier - Lewis Namier - 1971
* Jasper Ridley - Lord Palmerston - 1970
1960 - 1969
* Antonia Fraser - Mary, Queen Of Scots - 1969
* Gordon S. Haight - George Eliot - 1968
* Winifred Gérin - Charlotte Brontë, The Evolution Of Genius - 1967
* Geoffrey Keynes - The Life Of William Harvey - 1966
* Mary Moorman - William Wordsworth, The Later Years 1803-1850 - 1965
* Elizabeth Longford - Victoria R.I. - 1964
* Georgina Battiscome - John Keble: A Study In Limitations - 1963
Meriol Trevor - Newman: The Pillar And The Cloud and Newman: Light In Winter - 1962
* M. K. Ashby - Joseph Ashby Of Tysoe - 1961
* Canon Adam Fox - The Life Of Dean Inge - 1960
1950 - 1959
* Christopher Hassall - Edward Marsh - 1959
* Joyce Hemlow - The History Of Fanny Burney - 1958
* Maurice Cranston - Life Of John Locke - 1957
* St John Greer Ervine - George Bernard Shaw - 1956
* R. W. Ketton-Cremer - Thomas Gray - 1955
* Keith Feiling - Warren Hastings - 1954
* Carola Oman - Sir John Moore - 1953
* G. M. Young - Stanley Baldwin - 1952
* Noel G. Annan - Leslie Stephen - 1951
* Mrs Cecil Woodham-Smith - Florence Nightingale - 1950
1940 - 1949
* John Connell - W. E. Henley - 1949
* Percy A. Scholes - The Great Dr Burney - 1948
* C. C. E. Raven - English Naturalists From Neckham To Ray - 1947
* R. Aldington - Wellington - 1946
* D. S. MacColl - Philip Wilson Steer - 1945
* C. V. Wedgwood - William The Silent - 1944
* G. G. Coulton - Fourscore Years - 1943
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede. Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary - 1942
* John Gore - King George V - 1941
* Hilda F. M. Prescott - Spanish Tudor - 1940
1930 - 1939
* David C. Douglas - English Scholars - 1939
* Sir Edmund Chambers - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1938
* Lord Eustace Percy - John Knox - 1937
Edward Sackville West. A Flame In Sunlight: Life And Work Of Thomas de Quincey - 1936
* R. W. Chambers - Thomas More - 1935
* J. E. Neale - Queen Elizabeth - 1934
* Violet Clifton - The Book Of Talbot - 1933
* Stephen Gwynn - The Life Of Mary Kingsley - 1932
* J. Y. R. Greig - David Hume - 1931
* Francis Yeats Brown - Lives Of A Bengal Lancer - 1930
1919 - 1929
* Lord David Cecil - The Stricken Deer: Or The Life Of Cowper - 1929
* John Buchan - Montrose - 1928
* H. A. L. Fisher - James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, O.M. - 1927
* Rev. Dr H. B. Workman - John Wyclif: A Study Of The English Medieval Church - 1926
* Geoffrey Scott - The Portrait Of Zelide - 1925
* Rev. William Wilson - The House Of Airlie - 1924
* Sir Ronald Ross - Memoirs, Etc - 1923
* Percy Lubbock - Earlham - 1922
* Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria - 1921
* G. M. Trevelyan - Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill - 1920
* H. Festing Jones - Samuel Butler, Author Of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir - 1919
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