BOOK AWARDS
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2003
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Founded in memory of a partner at A & C Black Ltd, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are awarded annually for the best work of fiction and the best biography (or work of that nature) published during the previous year.
They are awarded on the recommendation of John Frow, the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
The value of each prize is £3,000, derived from the James Tait Black Memorial Fund. Previous winners include DH Lawrence, EM Forster, Graham Greene and Salman Rushdie.
Winner (announced end May)
The winners have been announced as:
FICTION: Personality by Andrew O'HAGAN (Faber & Faber) — 0571195016
BIOGRAPHY: Charles Darwin: Vol 2 — The Power of Place by Janet BROWNE (Jonathan Cape) — 0224042122
Shortlist 2004 (announced May)
| FICTION — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey EUGENIDES | Bloomsbury | 0747560234 |
| The Crimson Petal and the White | Michel FABER | Canongate Books | 1841953237 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark HADDON | Jonathan Cape | 0224063782 |
| Personality | Andrew O'HAGAN | Faber & Faber | 0571195016 |
| BIOGRAPHY — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Charles Darwin: Vol 2 — The Power of Place | Janet BROWNE | Jonathan Cape | 0224042122 |
| White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India | William DALRYMPLE | Harpercollins | 0385408188 |
| Martha Gellhorn: A Life | Caroline MOOREHEAD | Chatto & Windus | 0701169516 |
Winners in 2002
Fiction: Jonathan Franzen The Corrections (Fourth Estate)
Biography: Jenny Uglow The Lunar Men (Faber)
