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On the Black Hill

by Bruce Chatwin

Costa Book · 1982 · WinnerJames Tait · 1982 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9782246314622

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Costa Book of the YearCosta First Novel Award1982Winner
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction1982Winner

About the Author

Charles Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist best known for In Patagonia (1977), which revived the travel writing genre and won the Hawthornden Prize and E.M. Forster Award; other notable works include The Songlines (1987), On the Black Hill (1982, James Tait Black Memorial Prize), and Utz (1988, Booker-shortlisted).

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