James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction — Complete Winners List

15 years of winners · University of Edinburgh · Since 1919 · ← Back to award page


2024	My Heavenly Favourite	Marieke Lucas Rijneveld	Faber & Faber
2023	Praiseworthy	Alexis Wright	Giramondo / And Other Stories
2022	Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	Faber & Faber
2021	A Shock	Keith Ridgway	Picador
2020	Lote	Shola von Reinhold	Jacaranda Books
2019	Ducks, Newburyport	Lucy Ellmann	Galley Beggar Press
2018	Crudo	Olivia Laing	Picador
2017	Attrib. and Other Stories	Eley Williams	Influx Press
2016	The Lesser Bohemians	Eimear McBride	Faber & Faber
2015	You Don't Have to Live Like This	Benjamin Markovits	Faber & Faber
2014	In the Light of What We Know	Zia Haider Rahman	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2013	Harvest	Jim Crace	Picador
2012	The Deadman's Pedal	Alan Warner	Jonathan Cape
2009	The Children's Book	A. S. Byatt	Chatto & Windus
2008	The Secret Scripture	Sebastian Barry	Faber & Faber