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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 100 (2018)

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Winners

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Olivia Laing おりゔぃあ・れいんぐ Winner

An 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.

176 pages
experimental fictionpolitical anxietymarriagecontemporaneity
Lindsey Hilsum りんじー・ひるさむ Winner

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.

400 pages
biographywar reportingjournalismethics
Clare Barron くれあ・ばろん Winner

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.

139 pages
dramaadolescencecompetitionthe body