James Tait Black Memorial Winners
This list of James Tait Black Memoria Prize winners (fiction category) is provided purely for reference. If any of the titles are reviewed on booklit then the appropriate link to the review will be added.
- 1919: The Secret City, Hugh Walpole
- 1920: The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence
- 1921: Memoirs Of A Midget, Walter de la Mare
- 1922: Lady Into Fox, David Garnett
- 1923: Riceyman Steps, Arnold Bennett
- 1924: A Passage To India, E. M. Forster
- 1925: The Informer, Liam O’Flaherty
- 1926: Adam’s Breed, Radclyffe Hall
- 1927: Portrait Of Clare, Francis Brett Young
- 1928: Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man, Siegfried Sassoon
- 1929: The Good Companions, J. B. Priestley
- 1930: Miss Mole, E. H. Young
- 1931: Without My Cloak, Kate O’Brien
- 1932: Boomerang, Helen Simpson
- 1933: England, Their England, A. G. Macdonell
- 1934: I, Claudius and Claudius The God, Robert Graves
- 1935: The Root And The Flower, L. H. Myers
- 1936: South Riding, Winifred Holtby
- 1937: Highland River, Neil M. Gunn
- 1938: A Ship Of The Line and Flying Colours, C. S. Forester
- 1939: After Many A Summer Dies The Swan, Aldous Huxley
- 1940: The Voyage, Charles Morgan
- 1941: A House Of Children, Joyce Cary
- 1942: Monkey, Wu Ch’eng-en (trans. Arthur Whaley)
- 1943: Tales From Bectine Bridge, Mary Lavin -
- 1944: Young Tom, Forrest Reid
- 1945: Travellers, L. A. G. Strong
- 1946: Poor Man’s Tapestry, G. Oliver Onions
- 1947: Eustace And Hilda, L. P. Hartley
- 1948: The Heart Of The Matter, Graham Greene
- 1949: The Far Cry, Emma Smith
- 1950: Along The Valley, Robert Henriquez
- 1951: Father Goose, W. C. Chapman-Mortimer
- 1952: Men At Arms, Evelyn Waugh
- 1953: Troy Chimneys, Margaret Kennedy
- 1954: The New Men and The Masters in sequence, C. P. Snow
- 1955: Mother And Son, Ivy Compton-Burnett
- 1956: The Towers Of Trebizond, Rose Macauley
- 1957: At Lady Molly’s, Anthony Powell
- 1958: The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot, Angus Wilson
- 1959: The Devil’s Advocate, Morris West
- 1960: Imperial Caesar, Rex Warner
- 1961: The Ha-Ha, Jennifer Dawson
- 1962: Act Of Destruction, Ronald Hardy
- 1963: A Slanting Light, Gerda Charles
- 1964: The Ice Saints, Frank Tuohy
- 1965: The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark
- 1966: Go Down, Aidan Higgins
- 1966: Langrishe, Christine Brooke-Rose
- 1967: Jerusalem The Golden, Margaret Drabble
- 1968: The Gasteropod, Maggie Ross
- 1969: Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen
- 1970: The Bird Of Paradise, Lily Powell
- 1971: A Guest Of Honour, Nadine Gordimer
- 1972: G, John Berger
- 1973: The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch
- 1974: Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness, Lawrence Durrell
- 1975: The Great Victorian Collection, Brian Moore
- 1976: Doctor Copernicus, John Banville
- 1977: The Honourable Schoolboy, John Le Carré
- 1978: Plumb, Maurice Gee
- 1979: Darkness Visible, William Golding
- 1980: Waiting For The Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee
- 1981: Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- 1981: The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
- 1982: On The Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin
- 1983: Allegro Postillions, Jonathan Keates
- 1984: Empire Of The Sun, J. G. Ballard
- 1984: Nights At The Circus, Angela Carter
- 1985: Winter Garden, Robert Edric
- 1986: Persephone, Jenny Joseph
- 1987: The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories, George Mackay Brown
- 1988: A Season In The West, Piers Paul Read
- 1989: A Disaffection, James Kelman
- 1990: Brazzaville Beach, William Boyd
- 1991: Downriver, Iain Sinclair
- 1992: Sacred Country, Rose Tremain
- 1993: Crossing The River, Caryl Phillips
- 1994: The Folding Star, Alan Hollinghurst
- 1995: The Prestige, Christopher Priest
- 1996: Justine, Alice Thompson
- 1996: Last Orders, Graham Swift
- 1997: Ingenious Pain, Andrew Miller
- 1998: Master Georgie, Beryl Bainbridge
- 1999: Renegade or Halo2, Timothy Mo
- 2000: White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- 2001: Something Like a House, Sid Smith
- 2002: The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
- 2003: Personality, Andrew O’Hagan
- 2004: GB84, David Peace
- 2005: Saturday, Ian McEwan
- 2006: The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- 2007: Our Horses In Egypt, Rosalind Belbin
- 2008: The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
- 2009: The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt
- 2010: The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli