James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう
Edition 66 (1984)
FictionBiographyDrama
Winners
3 people
James Graham Ballard
Winner
A novel of wartime Shanghai seen through the eyes of a boy left on his own amid chaos and change.
War remakes a child’s world without mercy.
278 pages
war fictioncoming-of-ageShanghai
Angela Carter
Winner
A novel that follows a woman seeking freedom between the glamour and unease of the circus.
Night performances blur the boundary between illusion and liberation.
304 pages
circusfeminismfantasy
Lyndall Gordon
Winner
A biography that presents Virginia Woolf’s life and writing together, in dialogue with her era.
A life and a body of work read as one continuous stream.
944 pages
biographyVirginia Woolfliterary history