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James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう

Edition 48 (1966)

FictionBiographyDrama

Winners

3 people
Christine Brooke-Rose くりすてぃん・ぶるっく=ろーず Winner

An experimental, playful novel in which a three-minute heart massage opens up a shifting relationship between bodily sensation and language.

A small bodily event becomes the force that unsettles the novel’s own language.

194 pages
experimental fictionthe bodylanguagehumor
Aidan Higgins あいだん・ひぎんず Winner

A novel set against the decline of an Irish family, following the youngest daughter Imogen and the emotional fault lines running through the household.

The collapse of a household and the desires of its members meet in quiet but persistent tension.

254 pages
Irelandfamily declinelove affairmemory
Geoffrey Keynes じぇふりー・けいんず Winner

A biography of William Harvey that follows his life, his scholarly path to the discovery of blood circulation, and the historical world around him.

Through one physician’s life, the beginnings of modern medicine come into view.

502 pages
biographymedical historyearly modern scienceWilliam Harvey