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Past winners of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, listed by year of publication.
2000 - Present
- Rosalind Belben - Our Horses in Egypt (Chatto & Windus) - 2007
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road (Picador) - 2006
- Ian McEwan - Saturday (Jonathan Cape) - 2005
- David Peace - GB84 (Faber) - 2004
- Andrew O'Hagan - Personality (Faber) - 2003
- Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections (Fourth Estate) - 2002
- Sid Smith - Something Like a House (Picador) - 2001
- Zadie Smith - White Teeth (Penguin UK) - 2000
1990 - 1999
- Timothy Mo - Renegade or Halo2 (Paddleless Press) - 1999
- Beryl Bainbridge - Master Georgie (Duckworth) - 1998
- Andrew Miller - Ingenious Pain (Sceptre) - 1997
- Joint Award: Graham Swift - Last Orders (Picador Macmillan) and Alice Thompson - Justine (Canongate) - 1996
- Christopher Priest - The Prestige (Touchstone) - 1995
- Alan Hollinghurst - The Folding Star (Chatto & Windus) - 1994
- Caryl Phillips - Crossing The River (Bloomsbury) - 1993
- Rose Tremain - Sacred Country (Sinclair Stevenson) - 1992
- Iain Sinclair - Downriver (Michael Joseph) - 1991
- William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach (Sinclair Stevenson) - 1990
1980 - 1989
- James Kelman - A Disaffection (Secker & Warburg) - 1989
- Piers Paul Read - A Season In The West (Secker & Warburg) - 1988
- George Mackay Brown - The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (John Murray) - 1987
- Jenny Joseph - Persephone (Bloodaxe Books) - 1986
- Robert Edric - Winter Garden (André Deutsch) - 1985
- Joint Award: J. G. Ballard - Empire Of The Sun (Gollancz) and Angela Carter - Nights At The Circus (Chatto & Windus) - 1984
- Jonathan Keates - Allegro Postillions (Salamander Press) - 1983
- Bruce Chatwin - On The Black Hill (Cape) - 1982
- Joint Award: Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children (Cape) and Paul Theroux - The Mosquito Coast (Hamish Hamilton) - 1981
- J. M. Coetzee - Waiting For The Barbarians (Secker & Warburg) - 1980
1970 - 1979
- William Golding - Darkness Visible (Faber) - 1979
- Maurice Gee - Plumb (Faber) - 1978
- John Le Carré - The Honourable Schoolboy (Hodder & Stoughton) - 1977
- John Banville - Doctor Copernicus (Secker & Warburg) - 1976
- Brian Moore - The Great Victorian Collection (Cape) - 1975
- Lawrence Durrell - Monsieur, Or The Prince Of Darkness - 1974
- Iris Murdoch - The Black Prince - 1973
- John Berger - G - 1972
- Nadine Gordimer - A Guest Of Honour - 1971
- Lily Powell - The Bird Of Paradise - 1970
1960 - 1969
- Elizabeth Bowen - Eva Trout - 1969
- Maggie Ross - The Gasteropod - 1968
- Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem The Golden - 1967
- Joint Award: Christine Brooke-Rose - Such and Aidan Higgins - Langrishe, Go Down - 1966
- Muriel Spark - The Mandelbaum Gate - 1965
- Frank Tuohy - The Ice Saints - 1964
- Gerda Charles - A Slanting Light - 1963
- Ronald Hardy - Act Of Destruction - 1962
- Jennifer Dawson - The Ha-Ha - 1961
- Rex Warner - Imperial Caesar - 1960
1950 - 1959
- Morris West - The Devil's Advocate - 1959
- Angus Wilson - The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot - 1958
- Anthony Powell - At Lady Molly's - 1957
- Rose Macauley - The Towers Of Trebizond - 1956
- Ivy Compton-Burnett - Mother And Son - 1955
- C. P. Snow - The New Men and The Masters in sequence - 1954
- Margaret Kennedy - Troy Chimneys - 1953
- Evelyn Waugh - Men At Arms - 1952
- W. C. Chapman-Mortimer - Father Goose - 1951
- Robert Henriquez - Along The Valley - 1950
1940 - 1949
- Emma Smith - The Far Cry - 1949
- Graham Greene - The Heart Of The Matter - 1948
- L. P. Hartley - Eustace And Hilda - 1947
- G. Oliver Onions - Poor Man's Tapestry - 1946
- L. A. G. Strong - Travellers - 1945
- Forrest Reid - Young Tom - 1944
- Mary Lavin - Tales From Bective Bridge - 1943
- Arthur Whaley - Monkey By Wu Ch'eng-en - 1942
- Joyce Cary - A House Of Children - 1941
- Charles Morgan - The Voyage - 1940
1930 - 1939
- Aldous Huxley - After Many A Summer Dies The Swan - 1939
- C. S. Forester - A Ship Of The Line and Flying Colours - 1938
- Neil M. Gunn - Highland River - 1937
- Winifred Holtby - South Riding - 1936
- L. H. Myers - The Root And The Flower - 1935
- Robert Graves - I, Claudius and Claudius The God - 1934
- A. G. Macdonell - England, Their England - 1933
- Helen Simpson - Boomerang - 1932
- Kate O'Brien - Without My Cloak - 1931
- E. H. Young - Miss Mole - 1930
1919 - 1929
- J. B. Priestley - The Good Companions - 1929
- Siegfried Sassoon - Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man - 1928
- Francis Brett Young - Portrait Of Clare - 1927
- Radclyffe Hall - Adam's Breed - 1926
- Liam O'Flaherty - The Informer - 1925
- E. M. Forster - A Passage To India - 1924
- Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps - 1923
- David Garnett - Lady Into Fox - 1922
- Walter de la Mare - Memoirs Of A Midget - 1921
- D. H. Lawrence - The Lost Girl - 1920
- Hugh Walpole - The Secret City - 1919
This article was published on Feb 6, 2013