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02/05/2006
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes shortlist announced
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes shortlist has been announced. The nominees include Ali Smith for The Accidental, Smith has already won the Whitbread novel prize and was shortlisted for the Orange prize last week.
Other nominees in the fiction category are Andre Brink, Uzodinma Iweala, Ian McEwan and Joyce Carol Oates.
Last year's Guardian first book award-winner, Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters, is shortlisted in the biography category, along with books on war poet Siegfried Sassoon, painter Edvard Munch and Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw.
One of the UK's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are presented every year to the best fictional book and top biography.
The two winners will be announced in June and each will receive £10,000 in prize money.
Fiction nominees:
Andre Brink - Praying Mantis
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Uzodinma Iweala - Beasts of No Nation
Ian McEwan - Saturday
Joyce Carol Oates - Mother, Missing
Ali Smith - The Accidental
Biography nominees:
Max Egremont - Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography
Nigel Farndale - Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce
Roger Knight - The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson
Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards
Roger Pearson - A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
Sue Prideaux - Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
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