• News
• About
• Studying
• Research
• Alumni
• Business
• Staff & students
• Schools & departments

People

• Introduction
• Honorary graduates
• Alumnus of the year
• James Tait Black Prize winners
• Millennial plaques
• University officials
• Famous alumni

• University Homepage
• About
• People
• James Tait Black
• This year's shortlist

• Introduction
• Winners announced
• This year's shortlist
• About the awards
• Judges & panel
• Previous winners - fiction
• Previous winners - biography
• How to submit

This year's shortlist

The shortlist for Britain's oldest literary award, The James Tait Black Prizes was announced on 19 May 2011.

We have a very exciting line-up this year. The James Tait Black Awards represent the very best in fiction and biographies and this year we have an excellent mix of respected writers and emerging talent.

Dr James Loxley

Manager of the awards

Fiction shortlist

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
• La Rochelle by Michael Nath
• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
• The Lotus Eaters by Tatjani Soli

Biography shortlist

• Fordlandia: the Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
• A Life in Pictures by Alisdair Gray
• EM Forster : a new life by Wendy Moffat
• Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling

This article was published on Jun 29, 2011

• Terms & Conditions
• Privacy Policy
• Website accessibility
• Freedom of Information Publication Scheme

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright © The University of Edinburgh 2012.