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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 56 (1974)

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Winners

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Lawrence George Durrell ろーれんす・でゅれる Winner

A layered novel set in Avignon, revolving around love, memory, and lost relationships.

A love triangle and a city’s memory intertwine in a dreamlike web.

304 pages
French fictionmemorylovemodernism
John Barrington Wain じょん・うぇいん Winner

A biography of Samuel Johnson, the great eighteenth-century English man of letters.

A single life becomes a portrait of English literary history.

408 pages
biography18th centuryEnglish literatureintellectual life