Cormac McCarthy has won the 2006 James Tait Black Award for fiction for The Road. The James Tait Black Award is Scotland’s most prestigious and the U.K.’s oldest literary award. It comes with a prize of £10,000. Winners were announced on August 25, 2007 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The Road , which won a Pulitzer earlier this year, was published by Knopf in hardcover in 2006 and received a starred review in PW, which called it a "postapocalyptic tour de force" and "a haunting and grim novel about civilization's slow death after the power goes out." The paperback edition, published by Vintage, was also an Oprah’s Book Club selection.
Awarded since 1919, previous fiction winners of the James Tait Black Award have included D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster and Graham Greene.
