ShelfEvidentJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction — Complete Winners List
106 years of winners · University of Edinburgh · Since 1919 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Marieke Lucas Rijneveld | Faber & Faber | |
| 2023 | Alexis Wright | Giramondo / And Other Stories | |
| 2022 | Barbara Kingsolver | Faber & Faber | |
| 2021 | Keith Ridgway | Picador | |
| 2020 | Shola von Reinhold | Jacaranda Books | |
| 2019 | Lucy Ellmann | Galley Beggar Press | |
| 2018 | Olivia Laing | Picador | |
| 2017 | Eley Williams | Influx Press | |
| 2016 | Eimear McBride | Faber & Faber | |
| 2015 | Benjamin Markovits | Faber & Faber | |
| 2014 | Zia Haider Rahman | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2013 | Jim Crace | Picador | |
| 2012 | Alan Warner | Jonathan Cape | |
| 2011 | Padgett Powell | — | |
| 2010 | Tatjana Soli | — | |
| 2009 | A. S. Byatt | Chatto & Windus | |
| 2008 | Sebastian Barry | Faber & Faber | |
| 2007 | Rosalind Belben | — | |
| 2006 | Cormac McCarthy | Vintage Books | |
| 2005 | Ian McEwan | — | |
| 2004 | David Peace | — | |
| 2003 | Andrew O'Hagan | — | |
| 2002 | Jonathan Franzen | — | |
| 2001 | Sid Smith | — | |
| 2000 | Zadie Smith | — | |
| 1999 | Timothy Mo | — | |
| 1998 | Beryl Bainbridge | — | |
| 1997 | Andrew Miller | — | |
| 1996 | Graham Swift / Alice Thompson | — | |
| 1995 | Christopher Priest | — | |
| 1994 | Alan Hollinghurst | — | |
| 1993 | Caryl Phillips | — | |
| 1992 | Rose Tremain | — | |
| 1991 | Iain Sinclair | — | |
| 1990 | William Boyd | — | |
| 1989 | James Kelman | — | |
| 1988 | Piers Paul Read | — | |
| 1987 | George Mackay Brown | — | |
| 1986 | Jenny Joseph | — | |
| 1985 | Robert Edric | — | |
| 1984 | J. G. Ballard / Angela Carter | — | |
| 1983 | Jonathan Keates | — | |
| 1982 | Bruce Chatwin | — | |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie / Paul Theroux | — | |
| 1980 | J. M. Coetzee | — | |
| 1979 | William Golding | — | |
| 1978 | Maurice Gee | — | |
| 1977 | John le Carré | — | |
| 1976 | John Banville | — | |
| 1975 | Brian Moore | — | |
| 1974 | Lawrence Durrell | — | |
| 1973 | Iris Murdoch | — | |
| 1972 | John Berger | — | |
| 1971 | Nadine Gordimer | — | |
| 1970 | Lily Powell | — | |
| 1969 | Elizabeth Bowen | — | |
| 1968 | Maggie Ross | — | |
| 1967 | Margaret Drabble | — | |
| 1966 | Christine Brooke-Rose / Aidan Higgins | — | |
| 1965 | Muriel Spark | — | |
| 1964 | Frank Tuohy | — | |
| 1963 | Gerda Charles | — | |
| 1962 | Ronald Hardy | — | |
| 1961 | Jennifer Dawson | — | |
| 1960 | Rex Warner | — | |
| 1959 | Morris West | — | |
| 1958 | Angus Wilson | — | |
| 1957 | Anthony Powell | — | |
| 1956 | Rose Macaulay | — | |
| 1955 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | — | |
| 1954 | C. P. Snow | — | |
| 1953 | Margaret Kennedy | — | |
| 1952 | Evelyn Waugh | — | |
| 1951 | Chapman Mortimer | — | |
| 1950 | Robert Henriques | — | |
| 1949 | Emma Smith | — | |
| 1948 | Graham Greene | — | |
| 1947 | L. P. Hartley | — | |
| 1946 | Oliver Onions | — | |
| 1945 | L. A. G. Strong | — | |
| 1944 | Forrest Reid | — | |
| 1943 | Mary Lavin | — | |
| 1942 | Arthur Waley | — | |
| 1941 | Joyce Cary | — | |
| 1940 | Charles Morgan | — | |
| 1939 | Aldous Huxley | — | |
| 1938 | C. S. Forester | — | |
| 1937 | Neil M. Gunn | — | |
| 1936 | Winifred Holtby | — | |
| 1935 | Leo Myers | — | |
| 1934 | Robert Graves | — | |
| 1933 | A. G. Macdonell | — | |
| 1932 | Helen de Guerry Simpson | — | |
| 1931 | Kate O'Brien | — | |
| 1930 | E. H. Young | — | |
| 1929 | J. B. Priestley | — | |
| 1928 | Siegfried Sassoon | — | |
| 1927 | Francis Brett Young | — | |
| 1926 | Radclyffe Hall | — | |
| 1925 | Liam O'Flaherty | — | |
| 1924 | E. M. Forster | — | |
| 1923 | Arnold Bennett | — | |
| 1922 | David Garnett | — | |
| 1921 | Walter de la Mare | — | |
| 1920 | D. H. Lawrence | — | |
| 1919 | Hugh Walpole | — |
