Fiction winners

Winners of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction.

Please note these are listed by year of publication. 

2020-present

• Alexis Wright - Praiseworthy (And Other Stories) - 2023
• Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead (Faber) - 2022
• Keith Ridgway -  A Shock (Picador) - 2021
• Shola von Reinhold - Lote (Jacaranda) - 2020

2010–2019

• Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press) - 2019
• Olivia Laing - Crudo (Picador) - 2018
• Eley Williams - Attrib. and Other Stories (Influx Press) - 2017
• Eimear McBride - The Lesser Bohemians (Faber and Faber) 2016
• Benjamin Markovits - You Don’t Have to Live Like This (Faber and Faber) - 2015
• Zia Haider Rahman - In the Light of What We Know (Picador) - 2014
• Jim Crace - Harvest (Picador) - 2013
• Alan Warner - The Deadman’s Pedal (Jonathan Cape) - 2012
• Padgett Powell - You and I (Serpent's Tail) - 2011
• Tatjani Soli - The Lotus Eaters (St Martin's Press) - 2010

2000–2009

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