Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter was recently named the best fictional work to have won the James Tait Black Prize since it was founded in 1919 in memory of publisher James Tait Black. Past winners of this annual prize have included D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, and Martin Amis. Nights at the Circus originally won the James Tait Black Prize for fiction in 1984. Two prizes, judged by scholars of literature, are awarded annually by the University of Edinburgh for the best work of fiction and the best biography published in the previous year. A third category - drama - is being introduced with the next prize.
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