Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes In brief Date - 30 May 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareFeatured guest - Ian Penman Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About the eventThe University is thrilled to reveal that, at this special celebration event, the winners of this year's James Tait Black Prizes will be announced!During the event, you will hear from the judges and postgraduate panel on this year's shortlists in Fiction and in Biography and Life-Writing. We will also be joined in conversation by Ian Penman, one of last year's winners with Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, as part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme.Commenting on this year’s shortlist, the judging panel said: “The fiction shortlist brings together bold and provocative novels by authors from the UK, US, the Netherlands and Palestine, and provides a snapshot of the thrilling variety of global contemporary literature right now.“In the eclectic shortlist of biography, history and memoir, each offers stories of lives lived without fear and united by the wisdom in knowing that entering the lives of others – however remote from our own – helps us discover something deeper about ourselves and what connects us.”Come along and celebrate with us!2025's shortlistFictionThe Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Footnote Press)Ours by Phillip B. Williams (Granta Books)My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld, in a translation by Michele Hutchison (Faber & Faber)All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles (Galley Beggar Press)BiographyFeliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life by Michael Hughes (Open Book Publishers)Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal (Yale University Press)My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé, translated by Emma Ramadan (Pluto Press)Shattered: a memoir by Hanif Kureishi (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin)The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins (Harvard University Press and published by Faber & Faber as The Island: W.H. Auden and the Last of Englishness)How to attendThis event is open to all, and free to attend. You can register for free on Eventbrite. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Related linksVisit the JTBP website Tags English and Scottish Literature May 30 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes Join us for the announcement of this year's winners of the James Tait Black Prizes, featuring Ian Penman, 2024's winner for the JTB Biography Prize. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes In brief Date - 30 May 2025Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareFeatured guest - Ian Penman Book your free ticket on Eventbrite About the eventThe University is thrilled to reveal that, at this special celebration event, the winners of this year's James Tait Black Prizes will be announced!During the event, you will hear from the judges and postgraduate panel on this year's shortlists in Fiction and in Biography and Life-Writing. We will also be joined in conversation by Ian Penman, one of last year's winners with Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, as part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writers Programme.Commenting on this year’s shortlist, the judging panel said: “The fiction shortlist brings together bold and provocative novels by authors from the UK, US, the Netherlands and Palestine, and provides a snapshot of the thrilling variety of global contemporary literature right now.“In the eclectic shortlist of biography, history and memoir, each offers stories of lives lived without fear and united by the wisdom in knowing that entering the lives of others – however remote from our own – helps us discover something deeper about ourselves and what connects us.”Come along and celebrate with us!2025's shortlistFictionThe Coin by Yasmin Zaher (Footnote Press)Ours by Phillip B. Williams (Granta Books)My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld, in a translation by Michele Hutchison (Faber & Faber)All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles (Galley Beggar Press)BiographyFeliks Volkhovskii: A Revolutionary Life by Michael Hughes (Open Book Publishers)Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan by Ruby Lal (Yale University Press)My Great Arab Melancholy by Lamia Ziadé, translated by Emma Ramadan (Pluto Press)Shattered: a memoir by Hanif Kureishi (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin)The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins (Harvard University Press and published by Faber & Faber as The Island: W.H. Auden and the Last of Englishness)How to attendThis event is open to all, and free to attend. You can register for free on Eventbrite. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite Related linksVisit the JTBP website Tags English and Scottish Literature May 30 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes Join us for the announcement of this year's winners of the James Tait Black Prizes, featuring Ian Penman, 2024's winner for the JTB Biography Prize. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Book your free ticket on Eventbrite
May 30 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes Join us for the announcement of this year's winners of the James Tait Black Prizes, featuring Ian Penman, 2024's winner for the JTB Biography Prize.
