James Tait Black & Ondaatje Prizes
Posted on 29/04/2008The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid's fictional study of a neo-imperial identity crisis and John Burnside's chilling tale The Devil's Footprints are both in the running for this year's instalment of the James Tait Black Memorial prizes, it was announced today.
The prizes are the country's oldest literary awards, comprising two £10,000 awards for books published in 2007, one for novels and one for biographies. The winner's purse was increased from £3,000 two years ago.
Graham Robb, a literary and cultural historian who cycled through 14,000 miles of French countryside as part of the research for his latest book, has won the 2008 Ondaatje Prize. The £10,000 award, presented last night at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Literature in London, honours books which "evoke the spirit of a place".
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