BOOK AWARDS
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2004
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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: GB84 by David Peace (Faber & Faber) — 0571214452
BIOGRAPHY: John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate (Picador) — 0330371061
Shortlist 2004 (announced February)
| FICTION — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Havoc, in its Third Year | Ronan Bennett | Bloomsbury | 0747222118 |
| Afterglow | Anthony Cartwright | Hamish Hamilton | 0954130367 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Sceptre | 0340822775 |
| GB84 | David Peace | Faber & Faber | 0571214452 |
| Psychoraag | Suhayl Saadi | Black and White | 1845020103 |
| BIOGRAPHY — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| John Clare: A Biography | Jonathan Bate | Picador | 0330371061 |
| Eichmann: His Life and Crimes | David Cesarani | William Heinemann | 0434010561 |
| Like a Fiery Elephant: The story of B.S. Johnson | Jonathan Coe | Picador | 0330352048x |
| Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream | Nicola Lacey | Oxford University Press | 0199274975 |
| Nelson: A Dream of Glory | John Sugden | Jonathan Cape | 022406097x |
| Malinowski: Odyssey of an Anthropologist | Michael W. Young | Yale University Press | 0300102941 |
