James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう
Edition 100 (2018)
Winners
3 peopleAn experimental novel that captures the political turbulence of the summer of 2017 and the private anxiety of marriage with diary-like immediacy. Through a narrator who evokes Kathy Acker, love, news, the body, and apocalyptic dread collide at high speed.
A brief novel that asks what it means to love and to write during a summer when the world feels close to collapse.
A biography of war correspondent Marie Colvin, built from diaries, reporting, and testimony. It follows the courage and cost of a journalist who kept bearing witness in conflict zones, while examining the ethics and danger of war reporting.
A biography that asks what journalism takes on through the life and death of a reporter who kept returning to war.
A play about a team of girls in competitive dance, exploring adolescent desire, rivalry, bodily unease, and self-discovery. Funny and painful at once, it shows both the violence and liberation of youth.
Inside the heat of a dance team chasing victory, the girls' ambition and fear are laid bare.