James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Awards & Honors

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Byron Rogers

04/05/1942 – 08/03/2025

83 years

Memorial

Maurice Gee

08/22/1931 – 06/12/2025

93 years

Nelson

Memorial

A. S. Byatt

08/24/1936 – 11/16/2023

87 years

British writer

Memorial

Cormac McCarthy

07/20/1933 – 06/13/2023

89 years

American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Santa Fe

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Martin Amis

08/25/1949 – 05/19/2023

73 years

British novelist

Lake Worth Beach

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John le Carré

10/19/1931 – 12/12/2020

89 years

British novelist and spy

Royal Cornwall Hospital

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Jenny Joseph

05/07/1931 – 01/09/2018

86 years

Memorial

Aidan Higgins

03/03/1927 – 12/27/2015

88 years

Kinsale

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Karl Miller

08/02/1931 – 09/24/2014

83 years

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Nadine Gordimer

11/20/1923 – 07/13/2014

90 years

South African writer

Johannesburg

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Doris Lessing

10/22/1919 – 11/17/2013

94 years

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer

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Gitta Sereny

03/13/1921 – 06/14/2012

91 years

Austrian publicist and writer

Cambridge

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George D. Painter

06/05/1914 – 12/08/2005

91 years

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Felicitas Corrigan

03/06/1908 – 10/07/2003

95 years

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Joyce Hemlow

07/31/1906 – 09/03/2001

95 years

Halifax

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Anthony Powell

12/21/1905 – 03/28/2000

94 years

English novelist

Frome

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Noel Annan, Baron Annan

12/25/1916 – 02/21/2000

83 years

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Iris Murdoch

07/15/1919 – 02/08/1999

79 years

Oxford

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Brian Moore

08/25/1921 – 01/11/1999

77 years

Malibu

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Quentin Bell

08/19/1910 – 12/16/1996

86 years

Firle

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John Wain

03/14/1925 – 05/24/1994

69 years

Oxford

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Angela Carter

05/07/1940 – 02/16/1992

51 years

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Angus Wilson

08/11/1913 – 05/31/1991

77 years

Bury St Edmunds