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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 biography prize.

The shortlist:
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (Two Roads)
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Chatto & Windus)
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee (William Collins)
The Life of Stuff: A Memoir about the Mess We Leave Behind by Susannah Walker (Doubleday)

At the awards ceremony on 17 August 2019, In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum (Chatto & Windus) was crowned the winner.

Read more: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2019/james-...