Wright shortlisted for 2024 James Tait Black Prize
Wednesday, 27 March 2024 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) has been shortlisted for the fiction award in the 2024 James Tait Black Prizes.
The works shortlisted for the fiction and biography prizes, each worth £10,000 ($A19,345), are:
Fiction
- Lori & Joe (Amy Arnold, Prototype Publishing)
- Open Throat (Henry Hoke, Picador)
- Though the Bodies Fall (Noel O’Regan, Granta)
- Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, Giramondo)
Biography (increased to six titles for this year)
- This Is Not Miami (Fernanda Melchor, trans by Sophie Hughes, Text)
- Traces of Enayat (Iman Mersal, trans by Robin Moger, And Other Stories)
- Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors (Ian Penman, Fitzcarraldo)
- Ordinary Notes (Christina Sharpe, Daunt Books)
- Always Reaching: The selected writings of Anne Truitt (Anne Truitt, Yale University Press)
- Lifescapes (Ann Wroe, Vintage).
Presented by the University of Edinburgh since 1919, the awards are the only major British book prizes judged by literature scholars and students.
The winners of both prizes will be announced in May.
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