It is our great pleasure to confirm Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright as the winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2024, and Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersel and Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman as the winners of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2024.
Told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned, Praiseworthy is a marvel of explosive sentences, a shock to allegory, an outraged cry against oppression, and a biting satire for the end of days.
The James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2024 Shortlist
Blending research with imagination, and adding a great deal of empathy, the award-winning Egyptian poet Iman Mersal has created an unclassifiable masterpiece.
Critic Ian Penman’s prismatic study of the great film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder mines the births of postmodernism and the digital revolution through a towering figure of German cinema in unputdownable prose.
The James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2024 Shortlist
