Janet Coats Black (15 February 1844 – 15 November 1918) was a Scottish poet, philanthropist, and the founder of the James Tait Black prize, Britain's longest running literary award.
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Janet Coats Black in the context of James Tait Black Award
The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize, are Britain's oldest literary awards. Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom, the prizes were founded in 1919 by Janet Coats Black in memory of her late husband, James Tait Black, a partner in the publishing house of A & C Black Ltd. Prizes are awarded in two categories: Fiction and Biography. A Drama prize was awarded from 2013-2019.
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