From the "British literature" Category

The “British literature” category includes literary awards news and reports related to fiction, poetry and drama produced in the area of Great Britain. This includes many worldwide awards that also consider British literary works.

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McCarthy wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction

Date: August 29, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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 Road' book cover
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. “The Road” boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which two people, ‘each the other’s world entire’, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

You can read more about The Road at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.ca.


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Forward Poetry Prize shortlist unveiled

Date: July 17, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winners announced

Date: May 30, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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James Fenton awarded Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry

Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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Locus Awards finalists named

Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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Julian Gough wins the National Short Story Prize

Date: April 26, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments

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