[kj] OT: Cormac McCarthy, author whose book I recommended a couple weeks back, wins one of Britain's oldest lit awards

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

 Cormac McCarthy wins literary award

/Mon Aug 27, 12:46 PM ET/

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of 
Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's 
travels through a post-apocalyptic America.

The University of Edinburgh announced over the weekend that McCarthy won 
this year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction for "The Road," 
which has already garnered the author a Pulitzer Prize.

Author and journalist Byron Rogers took the biography category prize for 
his book on R.S. Thomas, a British poet.

Each author wins $20,000, making the award Scotland's most valuable.

The media-shy McCarthy was not there to collect his prize.

The University of Edinburgh awards the prize annually for the best work 
of fiction and the best biography published during the previous year.

Past winners include D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Iris 
Murdoch, Graham Greene, Beryl Bainbridge and Zadie Smith.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070827/ap_en_ot/literary_award;_ylt=Aq9leGv7VTF2pNUWqyZarMNY24cA