Edinburgh students read excerpts from the James Tait Black shortlisted books (fiction)

The James Tait Black Prizes are the only major awards of their kind in Britain to be judged by scholars and students.
Each year senior staff and around 20 postgraduate students in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh are involved in the judging process.
In this video Edinburgh students read excepts from the books shortlisted for the 2019 fiction prize.

The shortlist:
* Murmur by Will Eaves (Canongate)
* Sight by Jessie Greengrass (John Murray)
* Crudo by Olivia Laing (Picador)
* Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Chatto & Windus)

At the awards ceremony on 17 August 2019, Crudo by Olivia Laing (Picador) was crowned the winner.

Read more: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/james-tait-black-book-awards

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