27 August 2013
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James Tait Black Book Prize winners announced
Alan Warner and Tanya Harrod have won the fiction and biography awards in Britain's oldest book prize ...
Alan Warner and Tanya Harrod have won the fiction and biography awards in Britain's oldest book prize
• Scottish writer Alan Warner, whose debut Morvern Callar was adapted into a film starring Samantha Morton, won the £10,000 fiction prize for his most recent novel, The Deadman's Pedal.
'The Deadman's Pedal is an exceptionally fine novel, richly evocative in detail, beautifully poised in execution, in which the story of one young man's journey to adulthood through the mysteries of childhood, sexuality, work, the realities of class society and the experience of divided family loyalties, offers a compelling poetic vision of a changing Scotland,' said fiction judge Lee Spinks.
• Art historian Tanya Harrod won the biography prize, also worth £10,000 for The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture.
'Tanya Harrod's The Last Sane Man offers an exceptional portrait of a remarkable craftsman and his world,' said biography judge Jonathan Wild. 'Harrod constructs this biography with the same eye for form and purpose that marked the work of her subject.'
The James Tait Black Prizes are awarded annually by Edinburgh University.
• Scottish writer Alan Warner, whose debut Morvern Callar was adapted into a film starring Samantha Morton, won the £10,000 fiction prize for his most recent novel, The Deadman's Pedal.
'The Deadman's Pedal is an exceptionally fine novel, richly evocative in detail, beautifully poised in execution, in which the story of one young man's journey to adulthood through the mysteries of childhood, sexuality, work, the realities of class society and the experience of divided family loyalties, offers a compelling poetic vision of a changing Scotland,' said fiction judge Lee Spinks.
• Art historian Tanya Harrod won the biography prize, also worth £10,000 for The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture.
'Tanya Harrod's The Last Sane Man offers an exceptional portrait of a remarkable craftsman and his world,' said biography judge Jonathan Wild. 'Harrod constructs this biography with the same eye for form and purpose that marked the work of her subject.'
The James Tait Black Prizes are awarded annually by Edinburgh University.
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