Blog: Winners of the 2011 James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The University of Edinburgh announced the winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The £10,000 prizes are for the best work of fiction and the best biography published during the previous 12 months. They are the only major British book awards judged by scholars and students of Literature.

Fiction

You & I

Padgett Powell

• 2011 JT Black-Fiction winner
• Score: 10.61

Biography

The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

Fiona MacCarthy

• 2011 JT Black-Biography winner
• Score: 10.61

Source: www.ed.ac.uk