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are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.[3]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"
1980s[]
1984
- Ronald Frame for Winter Journey - £6,750
- for Cold Showers - £6,750
- James Buchan for A Parish of Rich Women - £1,000
- Helen Harris for Playing Fields in Winter - £1,000
- for The Disinherited - £1,000
- for The Devil's Looking Glass - £1,000
1985
- Susan Kay for Legacy - £12,500
- for A Season of Peace - £1,000
- Elizabeth Ironside for A Very Private Enterprise - £1,000
- for Instead of Eden - £1,000
- for The Standing Hills - £1,000
- for The Earth Abides For Ever - £1,000
1986
- Tim Parks for Tongues of Flame - £9,000
- for Family, Myths and Legends - £4,500
- for Mzungu's Wife - £1,000
- Matthew Kneale for Whore Banquets - £1,000
- for The Road to Dilmun - £1,000
- Kate Saunders for The Prodigal Father - £1,000
1987
- for Hard Luck - £8,000
- Peter Benson for The Levels - £4,500
- Helen Flint for Return Journey - £4,500
- Catherine Arnold for Lost Time - £1,000
- H. S. Bhabra for Gestures - £1,000
- for The Pink Stallion - £1,000
1988
- for The General Interruptor MS - £6,500
- Candia McWilliam for A Case of Knives - £6,500
- for Behind the Waterfall - £2,000
- for Left of North - £2,000
- Glenn Patterson for Burning Your Own - £2,000
- for Small Tales of a Town - £2,000
1989
- Nigel Watts for The Life Game - £10,000
- for Watercolour Sky - £5,000
- for Harry's Last Wedding - £2,000
- for Uncle Henry's Last Stand - £2,000
1990s[]
1990
- Robert McLiam Wilson for Ripley Bogle - £16,000
- Elizabeth Chadwick for The Wild Hunt - £3,000
- for No Strange Land - £3,000
- Nicholas Shakespeare for The Vision of Elena Silves - £3,000
1991
- Amit Chaudhuri for A Strange and Sublime Address - £10,000
- for Teaching Little Fang - £7,000
- Suzannah Dunn for Quite Contrary - £2,000
- Lesley Glaister for Honour Thy Father - £2,000
- Simon Mason for The Great English Nude - £2,000
- Nino Ricci for Lives of the Saints - £2,000
1992
- for Kissing Through a Pane of Glass - £5,000
- Tibor Fischer for Under the Frog - £3,000
- for The Dream Stone - £3,000
- for The Last of His Line - £3,000
- Edward St Aubyn for Never Mind - £3,000
1993
- for You'll Never be Here Again - £10,000
- Andrew Cowan for Pig - £7,000
- for Tommy Was Here - £5,000
- Joanna Briscoe for Mothers and Other Lovers - £2,000
- for Landing on Clouds - £2,000
1994
- Colin Bateman for Divorcing Jack - £12,000
- Nadeem Aslam for Season of the Rainbirds - £10,000
- Guy Burt for After the Hole - £1,000
- Frances Liardet for The Game - £1,000
- for Some Hope - £1,000
1995
- Robert Newman for Dependence Day - £10,000
- Mark Behr for The Smell of Apples - £8,000
- Martina Evans for Midnight Feast - £3,000
- for A Speck of Coaldust - £1,000
- for Hallelujah Jordan - £1,000
- for The Latecomer - £1,000
- Madeleine Wickham for The Tennis Party - £1,000
1996
- John Lanchester for The Debt to Pleasure - £8,000
- Meera Syal for Anita and Me - £7,000
- Rhidian Brook for The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - £5,000
- for The Luxury of Exile - £5,000
1997
- Alex Garland for The Beach - £12,000
- for Poker Face - £5,000
- Ardashir Vakil for Beach Boy - £5,000
- Diran Adebayo for Some Kind of Black - £1,500
- for Theory of Mind - £1,500
1998
- Kiran Desai for Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard for £10,000
- Nick Earls for Zigzag Street - £8,000
- Phil Whitaker for Eclipse of the Sun - £5,000
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz for The Cure for Death by Lightning - £1,000
- Tobias Hill for Underground - £1,000
1999
- Elliot Perlman for Three Dollars - £7,000
- Catherine Chidgey for In a Fishbone Church - £6,000
- Giles Foden for The Last King of Scotland - £4,000
- Dennis Bock for Olympia - £3,000
- Rajeev Balasubramanyam for In Beautiful Disguises - £2,500
- Sarah Waters for Tipping the Velvet - £1,000
2000s[]
2000
- Jonathan Tulloch for The Season Ticket - £10,000
- Julia Leigh for The Hunter - £7,000
- Susan Elderkin for Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains - £4,000
- Galaxy Craze for By The Shore - £2,000
- for The Requiem Shark - £2,000
2001
- Zadie Smith for White Teeth - £8,000
- Justin Hill for The Drink and Dream Teahouse - £5,000
- Maggie O'Farrell for After You'd Gone - £5,000
- for Take One Young Man - £4,000
- Mohsin Hamid for Moth Smoke - £2,500
- Patrick Neate for Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko - £2,500
2002 [4]
- Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist - £8,000
- Rachel Seiffert for The Dark Room - £5,000
- Shamim Sarif for The World Unseen - £4,000
- Helen Cross for My Summer of Love - £2,000
- Chloe Hooper for A Child's Book of True Crime - £2,000
- Susanna Jones for The Earthquake Bird - £2,000
- Gwendoline Riley for Cold Water - £2,000
2003
- Jon McGregor for If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - £10,000
- Sarah Hall for Haweswater - £6,000
- Stephanie Merritt for Gaveston - £4,000
- for Nightdancing - £2,000
- Zoë Strachan for Negative Space - £2,000
- Adam Thirlwell for Politics - £1,000
2004
- Louise Dean for Becoming Strangers - £8,000
- for The Sun Road - £6,000
- Anthony Cartwright for The Afterglow - £3,000
- Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi for The Last Song of Dusk - £3,000
2005
- Susan Fletcher for Eve Green - £16,000
- Diana Evans for 26a - £2,000
- Helen Walsh for Brass - £2,000
2006
- Nick Laird for Utterly Monkey - £10,000
- Peter Hobbs for The Short Day Dying - £5,000
- Nicola Monaghan for The Killing Jar - £5,000
2007
- for My Side of the Story - £10,000
- Adam Foulds for The Truth About These Strange Times - £2,500
- Cynan Jones for The Long Dry - £2,500
- for You Can Live Forever - £2,500
- for In Search of the Missing Eyelash - £2,500
2008
- David Szalay for London and the South-East - £10,000
- Ross Raisin for God's Own Country - £6,000
- Thomas Leveritt for The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money for £2,000
- for The Floating Island - £2,000
2009
- Samantha Harvey for The Wilderness - £12,000 (Prize)
- Eleanor Catton for The Rehearsal - £8,000
2010s[]
2010
- Nadifa Mohamed for Black Mamba Boy - £10,000 (Prize)
- Evie Wyld for After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - £7,000
- Jenn Ashworth for A Kind of Intimacy - £1,500
- Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani for I Do Not Come To You By Chance - £1,500
2011 [5]
- Anjali Joseph for Saraswati Park - £10,000 (Prize)
- Laura Barton for Twenty-One Locks - £6,000
- Simon Lelic for Rupture - £2,500
- for Luke and Jon - £2,500
2012
- David Whitehouse for Bed - £8,000 (Prize)
- Kalinda Ashton for The Danger Game - £3,000
- Elizabeth Day for Scissors, Paper, Stone - £3,000
- Annabel Pitcher for My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece for £3,000
- Emma Jane Unsworth for Hungry the Stars and Everything - £3,000
2013
- Grace McCleen for The Land of Decoration - £8,000 (Prize)
- Chibundu Onuzo for The Spider King's Daughter - £7,000
- Francesca Segal for The Innocents - £2,500
- Will Wiles for Care of Wooden Floors - £2,500
2014 [6]
- Nathan Filer for The Shock Of The Fall - £10,000 (Prize)
- NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names - £3,750
- Sam Byers for Idiopathy - £3,750
- Mave Fellowes for Chaplin and Company - £3,750
- Matt Greene for Ostrich - £3,750
2015 [7]
- Ben Fergusson for The Spring of Kasper Meier - £10,000 (Prize)
- Emma Healey for Elizabeth is Missing - £5,000
- Zoe Pilger for Eat My Heart Out - £5,000
- Simon Wroe for Chop Chop - £5,000
2016 [8]
- Alex Christofi for Glass - £10,000 (Prize)
- Irenosen Okojie for Butterfly Fish - £5,000
- Natasha Pulley for The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - £5,000
- for Wood for Weathering - £5,000
2017 [8]
- for Fallow - £10,000 (Prize)
- Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for Harmless Like You - £3,000
- Elnathan John for Born on a Tuesday - £3,000
- Kathleen Jowitt for Speak Its Name - £3,000
- Rob McCarthy for The Hollow Men - £3,000
- Barney Norris for Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain - £3,000
2018
- Omar Robert Hamilton for The City Always Wins - £10,000 (Prize)
- Sarah Day for Mussolini's Island - £3,250
- Clare Fisher for All the Good Things - £3,250
- Eli Goldstone for Strange Heart Beating - £3,250
- Lloyd Markham for Bad Ideas/Chemicals - £3,250
- Masande Ntshanga for The Reactive - £3,250
2019
- for The Litten Path - £10,000 (Prize)
- for The Chameleon - £2,700
- Imogen Hermes Gowar for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - £2,700
- Ruqaya Izzidien for The Watermelon Boys - £2,700
- for Paul - £2,700
- Rebecca Ley for Sweet Fruit, Sour Land - £2,700
- Sophie Mackintosh for The Water Cure - £2,700
2020s[]
2020
- Kathryn Hind for Hitch - £10,000 (Prize)[9]
- Stacey Halls for The Familiars - £5,400
- Isabella Hammad for The Parisian - £5,400
- Okeychukwu Nzelu for The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney - £5,400
2021
- Thomas McMullan for The Last Good Man (Prize)
- Graeme Armstrong for The Young Team
- Maame Blue for Bad Love
- Nneoma Ike-Njoku for The Water House
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave for The Mercies
- Eley Williams for The Liar’s Dictionary
References[]
- ^ "Betty Trask". Society of Authors.
- ^ Betty Trask Prize and Awards Archived 9 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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" Archived 27 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, The Society Of Authors, 27 June 2014.
- ^ "Authors’ Awards 2015" Archived 29 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Society Of Authors, 25 June 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ "Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for 'Hitch'". Books+Publishing. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
External links[]
Categories:
- Commonwealth literary awards
- Society of Authors awards
- First book awards
- British fiction awards
- Awards established in 1984
- Literary awards honouring young writers