May 04, 2008

Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist has been short-listed for this year's installment of the James Tait Black Memorial prizes. The prizes are UK’s oldest literary awards, comprising two £10,000 awards for books published in 2007, one for novels and one for biographies.

Fiction shortlist

Our Horses in Egypt by Rosalind Belben

The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

A Far Country by Daniel Mason

Salvage by Gee Williams

Biography shortlist

Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell by Michael Gray

God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill

Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves