James Tait Black Memorial Prizes じぇーむず・ていと・ぶらっく きねんしょう
Edition 105 (2023)
Winners
3 peopleSet in a fictional town in northern Australia, this epic novel braids together colonial history, the climate crisis, and Indigenous knowledge and myth on a vast scale. Its polyphonic, experimental style expands the story of communal crisis and survival.
A monumental novel that absorbs the pressure of land and history through mythic imagination.
Tracing the life and death of the forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat in Cairo, Iman Mersal moves between research and recollection to fill a gap in literary history. The book blends biography, essay, and personal reflection into a quiet but persistent act of rediscovery.
It follows the traces of a forgotten writer and closes the gap between memory and history.
This book reframes the work and mythology of filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder through fragments of criticism and recollection. It goes beyond film history, allowing the critic's own memory and sensibility to give the portrait of Fassbinder greater depth.
Fragmented criticism brings Fassbinder's figure and his era into focus.