In Crudo, her winning novel, Laing explained she had ‘said that competition has no place in art and I meant it’
Olivia Laing, who this weekend won the £10,000 James Tait Black award for her debut novel Crudo, will not be taking all of her winnings home with her. Instead, the acclaimed author has announced she will be dividing the money between her fellow shortlisted writers, because “competition has no place in art”.
Established in 1919, the James Tait Black prizes have in the past gone to names from Angela Carter to Cormac McCarthy. Crudo, in which Laing channels the spirit of the writer and performance artist Kathy Acker, had been shortlisted alongside three other novels. Judge Alex Lawrie said Crudo was “fiction at its finest: a bold and reactive political novel that captures a raw slice of contemporary history with pace, charm, and wit”.
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