James Tait Black Prizes 2020 - Fiction winner

Lucy Ellmann’s winning book in the fiction prize, Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press), is a complex novel based around the ruminations of an Ohio housewife. Much of it is written in one sentence, beginning with, “The fact that…”

Sally Magnusson is joined by judge Dr Benjamin Bateman announcing the winner at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which took place online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Judged by staff and students at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, The James Tait Black Prizes are awarded annually for the best work of fiction and the best biography published in the previous year, and have been presented every year since 1919.

Read more about The James Tait Black Prizes: https://www.ed.ac.uk/events/james-tait-black

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