Wednesday, June 27, 2007

2006 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and Biography

THE UNITED KINGDOM’S oldest and most literary of book awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and Biography (established in 1919), has announced two shortlists: fiction and biography, two of my most favourite genres.

Fiction
1. Half of a Yellow Sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Seven Lies / James Lasdun
3. The Road / Cormac McCarthy
4. The View from Castle Rock / Alice Munro
5. Electricity / Ray Robinson
6. The Night Watch / Sarah Waters

Biography
1. Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland / Carmen Callil
2. John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity / Gillian Darley
3. George Mackay Brown: The Life / Maggie Fergusson
4. The Man who Went Into the West: The Life of R.S. Thomas / Byron Rogers

The winners will be announced on August 25, 2007 in Edinburgh, Scotland

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So many good books, so little time. I think I am going to get the Alice Munro.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:30:00 PM  

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