The American Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy has been awarded the 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for his novel The Road.
The annual £10,000 James Tait Black Prize is the oldest literary prize in the UK, and among the most prestigious awards given for literature written in the English Language.
The Roadby Cormac [...]
Winner of the Montana NZ Book Awards and the Common- wealth Writers' Prize, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip is one of the frontrunners for this year's Booker Prize.
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