 The imprint is known for publishing debuts, by among others Colm Toibin's "The South", Michel Houellebecq's "Whatever" and David Peace's "Nineteen Seventy-Four".Prizes won by its authors include the Nobel Prize for Literature (Kenzaburō Ōe, Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller), the Orange Prize for Fiction (Lionel Shriver for "We Need to Talk About Kevin", in 2005) and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (Jonathan Trigell for "Boy A", in 2004).From 1993 to 1997, Serpent's Tail had a New York firm called High Risk Books under Ira Silverberg and Amy Scholder.