Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Shola von Reinhold have been shortlisted for the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Awarded for literature written in the English language, James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are Britain’s oldest literary awards. The prizes, based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, were founded by Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd in 1919. The awards are given for Fiction and Biographies written in English and published in the previous calendar year each worth £10,000 to the winner.
Previous winners have been Eimear McBride, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Nadine Gordimer, John le Carré, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is being shortlisted for her second novel, The First Woman. Shola von Reinhold for Lot.
The award winners will be selected by the Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh University, assisted by PhD students. The winners will be announced in August at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Art.
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