James Tait Black Memorial Prize Shortlist fiction for 2006:
André Brink, Praying Mantis.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go.Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Joyce Carol Oates, Missing
Ali Smith, The Accidental
Edinburgh has been designated the first UNESCO City of Literature.
My favorite James Tait Black Memorial Prize winners have been Andrew O’Hagan, Personality (2003); William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach (1990); Nadine Gordimer, A Guest Of Honour (1971); John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977); Graham Greene, The Heart Of The Matter (1948); Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius The God (1934);