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LONDON — Novelist Rosalind Belben and first-time biographer Rosemary Hill have won Britain’s oldest literary award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes.
Belben won the fiction prize for “Our Horses in Egypt,” which tells of a young war widow who travels to the Middle East to retrieve her mare in the aftermath of World War I — and follows the horse itself as it struggles to survive conflict and deprivation.
Hill took the best-biography award for her first book: “God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain,” a study of Augustus Pugin, one of Victorian Britain’s leading architects.
