Betty Trask Award
The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. Each year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the "Prize", and the remainder given to one or more other writers, called the "Awards".[1] The award was established in 1984 by the Society of Authors, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.[2] The awards are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.[3]
List of award and prize winners
Note: Beginning in 2009, the "Betty Trask Prize" is given to one author; the remaining receive the "Betty Trask Award"
| Year | Author | Book | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Ronald Frame | Winter Journey | £6,750 |
Clare Nonhebel | Cold Showers | £6,750 | |
James Buchan | A Parish of Rich Women | £1,000 | |
Helen Harris | Playing Fields in Winter | £1,000 | |
Gareth Jones | The Disinherited | £1,000 | |
Simon Rees | The Devil's Looking Glass | £1,000 | |
| 1985 | Susan Kay | Legacy | £12,500 |
Gary Armitage | A Season of Peace | £1,000 | |
Elizabeth Ironside | A Very Private Enterprise | £1,000 | |
Alice Mitchell | Instead of Eden | £1,000 | |
Caroline Stickland | The Standing Hills | £1,000 | |
George Schweiz | The Earth Abides For Ever | £1,000 | |
| 1986 | Tim Parks | Tongues of Flame | £9,000 |
Patricia Ferguson | Family, Myths and Legends | £4,500 | |
Philippa Blake | Mzungu's Wife | £1,000 | |
Matthew Kneale | Whore Banquets | £1,000 | |
J. F. McLaughlin | The Road to Dilmun | £1,000 | |
Kate Saunders | The Prodigal Father | £1,000 | |
| 1987 | James Maw | Hard Luck | £8,000 |
Peter Benson | The Levels | £4,500 | |
Helen Flint | Return Journey | £4,500 | |
Catherine Arnold | Lost Time | £1,000 | |
H. S. Bhabra | Gestures | £1,000 | |
Lucy Pinney | The Pink Stallion | £1,000 | |
| 1988 | Alex Martin | The General Interruptor MS | £6,500 |
Candia McWilliam | A Case of Knives | £6,500 | |
Georgina Andrewes | Behind the Waterfall | £2,000 | |
James Friel | Left of North | £2,000 | |
Glenn Patterson | Burning Your Own | £2,000 | |
Susan Webster | Small Tales of a Town | £2,000 | |
| 1989 | Nigel Watts | The Life Game | £10,000 |
William Riviere | Watercolour Sky | £5,000 | |
Paul Houghton | Harry's Last Wedding | £2,000 | |
Alasdair McKee | Uncle Henry's Last Stand | £2,000 | |
| 1990 | Robert McLiam Wilson | Ripley Bogle | £16,000 |
Elizabeth Chadwick | The Wild Hunt | £3,000 | |
Rosemary Cohen | No Strange Land | £3,000 | |
Nicholas Shakespeare | The Vision of Elena Silves | £3,000 | |
| 1991 | Amit Chaudhuri | A Strange and Sublime Address | £10,000 |
Mark Swallow | Teaching Little Fang | £7,000 | |
Suzannah Dunn | Quite Contrary | £2,000 | |
Lesley Glaister | Honour Thy Father | £2,000 | |
Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints | £2,000 | |
Simon Mason | The Great English Nude | £2,000 | |
| 1992 | Liane Jones | The Dream Stone | £3,000 |
Peter M. Rosenburg | Kissing Through a Pane of Glass | £5,000 | |
Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | £3,000 | |
Eugene Mullan | The Last of His Line | £3,000 | |
Edward St Aubyn | Never Mind | £3,000 | |
| 1993 | Mark Blackaby | You'll Never be Here Again | £10,000 |
Andrew Cowan | Pig | £7,000 | |
Simon Corrigan | Tommy Was Here | £5,000 | |
Joanna Briscoe | Mothers and Other Lovers | £2,000 | |
Olivia Fane | Landing on Clouds | £2,000 | |
| 1994 | Colin Bateman | Divorcing Jack | £12,000 |
Nadeem Aslam | Season of the Rainbirds | £10,000 | |
Guy Burt | After the Hole | £1,000 | |
Frances Liardet | The Game | £1,000 | |
Jonathan Rix | Some Hope | £1,000 | |
| 1995 | Robert Newman | Dependence Day | £10,000 |
Mark Behr | The Smell of Apples | £8,000 | |
Martina Evans | Midnight Feast | £3,000 | |
Rohit Manchanda | A Speck of Coaldust | £1,000 | |
Juliet Thomas | Hallelujah Jordan | £1,000 | |
Philippa Walshe | The Latecomer | £1,000 | |
Madeleine Wickham | The Tennis Party | £1,000 | |
| 1996 | John Lanchester | The Debt to Pleasure | £8,000 |
Meera Syal | Anita and Me | £7,000 | |
Rhidian Brook | The Testimony of Taliesin Jones | £5,000 | |
Louis Caron Buss | The Luxury of Exile | £5,000 | |
| 1997 | Alex Garland | The Beach | £12,000 |
Josie Barnard | Poker Face | £5,000 | |
Ardashir Vakil | Beach Boy | £5,000 | |
Diran Adebayo | Some Kind of Black | £1,500 | |
Sanjida O'Connell | Theory of Mind | £1,500 | |
| 1998 | Kiran Desai | Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | £10,000 |
Nick Earls | Zigzag Street | £8,000 | |
Phil Whitaker | Eclipse of the Sun | £5,000 | |
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | The Cure for Death by Lightning | £1,000 | |
Tobias Hill | Underground | £1,000 | |
| 1999 | Elliot Perlman | Three Dollars | £7,000 |
Catherine Chidgey | In a Fishbone Church | £6,000 | |
Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland | £4,000 | |
Dennis Bock | Olympia | £3,000 | |
Rajeev Balasubramanyam | In Beautiful Disguises | £2,500 | |
Sarah Waters | Tipping the Velvet | £1,000 | |
| 2000 | Jonathan Tulloch | The Season Ticket | £10,000 |
Julia Leigh | The Hunter | £7,000 | |
Susan Elderkin | Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains | £4,000 | |
Galaxy Craze | By The Shore | £2,000 | |
Nicholas Griffin | The Requiem Shark | £2,000 | |
| 2001 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth | £8,000 |
Justin Hill | The Drink and Dream Teahouse | £5,000 | |
Maggie O'Farrell | After You'd Gone | £5,000 | |
Vivien Kelly | Take One Young Man | £4,000 | |
Mohsin Hamid | Moth Smoke | £2,500 | |
Patrick Neate | Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko | £2,500 | |
| 2002[4] | Hari Kunzru | The Impressionist | £8,000 |
Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | £5,000 | |
Shamim Sarif | The World Unseen | £4,000 | |
Helen Cross | My Summer of Love | £2,000 | |
Chloe Hooper | A Child's Book of True Crime | £2,000 | |
Susanna Jones | The Earthquake Bird | £2,000 | |
Gwendoline Riley | Cold Water | £2,000 | |
| 2003 | Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | £10,000 |
Sarah Hall | Haweswater | £6,000 | |
Stephanie Merritt | Gaveston | £4,000 | |
Elizabeth Garner | Nightdancing | £2,000 | |
Zoe Strachan | Negative Space | £2,000 | |
Adam Thirlwell | Politics | £1,000 | |
| 2004 | Louise Dean | Becoming Strangers | £8,000 |
Hannah MacDonald | The Sun Road | £6,000 | |
Anthony Cartwright | The Afterglow | £3,000 | |
Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi | The Last Song of Dusk | £3,000 | |
| 2005 | Susan Fletcher | Eve Green | £16,000 |
Diana Evans | 26a | £2,000 | |
Helen Walsh | Brass | £2,000 | |
| 2006 | Nick Laird | Utterly Monkey | £10,000 |
Nicola Monaghan | The Killing Jar | £5,000 | |
Peter Hobbs | The Short Day Dying | £5,000 | |
| 2007 | Will Davis | My Side of the Story | £10,000 |
Adam Foulds | The Truth About These Strange Times | £2,500 | |
Cynan Jones | The Long Dry | £2,500 | |
Julie Maxwell | You Can Live Forever | £2,500 | |
Karen Mcleod | In Search of the Missing Eyelash | £2,500 | |
| 2008 | David Szalay | London and the South-East | £10,000 |
Ross Raisin | God's Own Country | £6,000 | |
Thomas Leveritt | The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money | £2,000 | |
Anna Ralph | The Floating Island | £2,000 | |
| 2009 | Samantha Harvey | The Wilderness | £12,000 (Prize) |
Eleanor Catton | The Rehearsal | £8,000 | |
| 2010 | Nadifa Mohamed | Black Mamba Boy | £10,000 (Prize) |
Evie Wyld | After the Fire, A Still Small Voice | £7,000 | |
Jenn Ashworth | A Kind of Intimacy | £1,500 | |
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani | I Do Not Come to You by Chance | £1,500 | |
| 2011[5] | Anjali Joseph | Saraswati Park | £10,000 (Prize) |
Laura Barton | Twenty-One Locks | £6,000 | |
Simon Lelic | Rupture | £2,500 | |
Robert Williams | Luke and Jon | £2,500 | |
| 2012 | David Whitehouse | Bed | £8,000 (Prize) |
Kalinda Ashton | The Danger Game | £3,000 | |
Elizabeth Day | Scissors, Paper, Stone | £3,000 | |
Annabel Pitcher | My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece | £3,000 | |
Emma Jane Unsworth | Hungry the Stars and Everything | £3,000 | |
| 2013 | Grace McCleen | The Land of Decoration | £8,000 (Prize) |
Chibundu Onuzo | The Spider King's Daughter | £7,000 | |
Francesca Segal | The Innocents | £2,500 | |
Will Wiles | Care of Wooden Floors | £2,500 | |
| 2014[6] | Nathan Filer | The Shock Of The Fall | £10,000 (Prize) |
NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | £3,750 | |
Sam Byers | Idiopathy | £3,750 | |
Mave Fellowes | Chaplin and Company | £3,750 | |
Matt Greene | Ostrich | £3,750 | |
| 2015[7] | Ben Fergusson | The Spring of Kasper Meier | £10,000 (Prize) |
Emma Healey | Elizabeth Is Missing | £5,000 | |
Zoe Pilger | Eat My Heart Out | £5,000 | |
Simon Wroe | Chop Chop | £5,000 | |
| 2016[8] | Alex Christofi | Glass | £10,000 (Prize) |
Irenosen Okojie | Butterfly Fish | £5,000 | |
Natasha Pulley | The Watchmaker of Filigree Street | £5,000 | |
Lucy Wood | Wood for Weathering | £5,000 | |
| 2017[8] | Daniel Shand | Fallow | £10,000 |
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Harmless Like You | £3,000 | |
Elnathan John | Born on a Tuesday | £3,000 | |
Kathleen Jowitt | Speak Its Name | £3,000 | |
Rob McCarthy | The Hollow Men | £3,000 | |
Barney Norris | Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain | £3,000 | |
| 2018 | Sarah Day | Mussolini's Island | £3,250 |
| Clare Fisher | All the Good Things | £3,250 | |
| Eli Goldstone | Strange Heart Beating | £3,250 | |
Omar Robert Hamilton | The City Always Wins | £10,000 | |
| Lloyd Markham | Bad Ideas/Chemicals | £3,250 | |
| Masande Ntshanga | The Reactive | £3,250 |
References
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^ "The Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
^ "Hari Kunzru wins Betty Trask Prize", The Guardian, 19 June 2002.
^ "Indian writer wins Betty Trask award for debut novel", Daily News and Analysis, 23 June 2011.
^ "Authors’ Awards 2014", The Society Of Authors, 27 June 2014.
^ "Authors’ Awards 2015", The Society Of Authors, 25 June 2015.
^ ab "Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
External links
- The Betty Trask Prizes and Awards: Past Winners
