James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Britain' oldest literary prize.
1919 - The Secret City by Hugh Walpole
1920 - The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence
1921 - Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
1922 - Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
1923 - Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
1924 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925 - The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
1926 - Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
1927 - The Portrait of Clare by Francis Brett Young
1928 - Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
1929 - The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
1930 - Miss Mole by E.H. Young
1931 - Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien
1932 - Boomerang by Helen Simpson
1933 - England, Their England by A.G. Macdonnell
1934 - I, Claudius/ Claudius the God by Robert Graves
1935 - The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers
1936 - South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1937 - Highland River by Neil M. Gunn
1938 - A Ship of the Line/ Flying Colours by C.S. Forester
1939 - After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
1940 - The Voyage by Charles Morgan
1941 - A House of Children by Joyce Cary
1942 - Translation of Monkey (by Wu Cheng'en) by Arthur Waley
1943 - Tales from Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin
1944 - Young Tom by Forrest Reid
1945 - Travellers by L.A.G. Strong
1946 - Poor Man's Tapestry by Oliver Onions
1947 - Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley
1948 - The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
1949 - The Far Cry by Emma Smith
1950 - Through the Valley by Robert Henriquez
1951 - Father Goose by Chapman Mortimer
1952 - Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
1953 - Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
1954 - The Men and the Masters by C.P. Snow
1955 - Mother and Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1956 - The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
1957 - At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
1958 - The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot by Angus Wilson
1959 - The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
1960 - Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner
1961 - The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
1962 - Act of Destruction by Ronald Hardy
1963 - A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles
1964 - The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
1965 - The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
1966 - Such by Christine Brooke-Rose; Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
1967 - Jerusalem The Golden by Margaret Drabble
1968 - The Gasteropod by Maggie Ross
1969 - Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
1970 - The Bird of Paradise by Lily Powell
1971 - A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer
1972 - G by John Berger
1973 - The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
1974 - Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell
1975 - The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
1976 - Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
1977 - The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré
1978 - Plumb by Maurice Gee
1979 - Darkness Visible by William Golding
1980 - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
1981 - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
1982 - On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
1983 - Allegro PostillionsJonathan Keates
1984 - Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard; Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1985 - Winter Garden by Robert Edric
1986 - Persephone by Jenny Joseph
1987 - The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown
1988 - A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read
1989 - A Disaffection by James Kelman
1990 - Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
1991 - Downriver by Iain Sinclair
1992 - Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
1993 - Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
1994 - The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
1995 - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
1996 - Last Orders by Graham Swift; Justine by Alice Thompson
1997 - Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
1998 - Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
1999 - Renegade, or Halo2 by Timothy Mo
2000 - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2001 - Something Like a House by Sid Smith
2002 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2003 - Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
2004 - GB84 by David Peace
1919 - The Secret City by Hugh Walpole
1920 - The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence
1921 - Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare
1922 - Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
1923 - Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett
1924 - A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
1925 - The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
1926 - Adam's Breed by Radclyffe Hall
1927 - The Portrait of Clare by Francis Brett Young
1928 - Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon
1929 - The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
1930 - Miss Mole by E.H. Young
1931 - Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien
1932 - Boomerang by Helen Simpson
1933 - England, Their England by A.G. Macdonnell
1934 - I, Claudius/ Claudius the God by Robert Graves
1935 - The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers
1936 - South Riding by Winifred Holtby
1937 - Highland River by Neil M. Gunn
1938 - A Ship of the Line/ Flying Colours by C.S. Forester
1939 - After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
1940 - The Voyage by Charles Morgan
1941 - A House of Children by Joyce Cary
1942 - Translation of Monkey (by Wu Cheng'en) by Arthur Waley
1943 - Tales from Bective Bridge by Mary Lavin
1944 - Young Tom by Forrest Reid
1945 - Travellers by L.A.G. Strong
1946 - Poor Man's Tapestry by Oliver Onions
1947 - Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley
1948 - The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
1949 - The Far Cry by Emma Smith
1950 - Through the Valley by Robert Henriquez
1951 - Father Goose by Chapman Mortimer
1952 - Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
1953 - Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy
1954 - The Men and the Masters by C.P. Snow
1955 - Mother and Son by Ivy Compton-Burnett
1956 - The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
1957 - At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
1958 - The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot by Angus Wilson
1959 - The Devil's Advocate by Morris West
1960 - Imperial Caesar by Rex Warner
1961 - The Ha-Ha by Jennifer Dawson
1962 - Act of Destruction by Ronald Hardy
1963 - A Slanting Light by Gerda Charles
1964 - The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy
1965 - The Mandelbaum Gate by Muriel Spark
1966 - Such by Christine Brooke-Rose; Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins
1967 - Jerusalem The Golden by Margaret Drabble
1968 - The Gasteropod by Maggie Ross
1969 - Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
1970 - The Bird of Paradise by Lily Powell
1971 - A Guest of Honour by Nadine Gordimer
1972 - G by John Berger
1973 - The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
1974 - Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell
1975 - The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
1976 - Doctor Copernicus by John Banville
1977 - The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carré
1978 - Plumb by Maurice Gee
1979 - Darkness Visible by William Golding
1980 - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
1981 - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie; The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
1982 - On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
1983 - Allegro PostillionsJonathan Keates
1984 - Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard; Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
1985 - Winter Garden by Robert Edric
1986 - Persephone by Jenny Joseph
1987 - The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories by George Mackay Brown
1988 - A Season in the West by Piers Paul Read
1989 - A Disaffection by James Kelman
1990 - Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
1991 - Downriver by Iain Sinclair
1992 - Sacred Country by Rose Tremain
1993 - Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
1994 - The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
1995 - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
1996 - Last Orders by Graham Swift; Justine by Alice Thompson
1997 - Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
1998 - Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
1999 - Renegade, or Halo2 by Timothy Mo
2000 - White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2001 - Something Like a House by Sid Smith
2002 - The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2003 - Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
2004 - GB84 by David Peace