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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 66 (1984)

FictionBiographyDrama

Winners

3 people

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

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