What prize did 'Nights at the Circus' win for fiction in 1984?

What prize did 'Nights at the Circus' win for fiction in 1984? It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Angela Carter’s novel, published in 1984, follows Fevvers, a flamboyant aerialist who claims to have been born with wings. The book moves through London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, blending circus spectacle, feminist revisionism, satire, and deliberately extravagant storytelling.

The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of Britain’s oldest literary awards. It is administered by the University of Edinburgh and has traditionally recognized fiction and biography. Carter’s win placed the novel among the major British literary successes of its year.

Readers sometimes confuse this prize with the Booker Prize or the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Neither was the 1984 fiction award recorded for Carter’s novel. The Women’s Prize began in 1996, more than a decade after Nights at the Circus appeared.