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Last year's shortlist
The fiction and biography shortlist for last year's James Tait Black Memorial Prizes.
There are very fine writers in the line-up this year, with superb story-telling skills and remarkable variety on display. It's certainly a bumper crop for our 90th birthday.
Professor Colin Nicholson
Manager of the awards
Fiction shortlist
- Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew Crumey
- A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- Pilcrow by Adam Mars-Jones
Biography shortlist
- Arthur Miller 1915-1962 by Christopher Bigsby
- A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
- Gabriel García Márquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
- Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham
- Chagall: Love and Exile by Jackie Wullschlager
This article was published on Aug 11, 2010