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Annual literary 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are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.[ 3]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 [ edit ]
Betty Trask Prize and Award winners, 1984-1989
Year
Author
Title
Prize
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
George Schweiz
The Earth Abides For Ever
£1,000
Caroline Stickland
The Standing Hills
£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
Betty Trask Award winners, 1990-1999
Year
Author
Title
Prize
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
Simon Mason
The Great English Nude
£2,000
Nino Ricci
Lives of the Saints
£2,000
1992
Peter M. Rosenburg
Kissing Through a Pane of Glass
£5,000
Tibor Fischer
Under the Frog
£3,000
Liane Jones
The Dream Stone
£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
Tobias Hill
Underground
£1,000
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
The Cure for Death by Lightning
£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
Since 2009, the Betty Trask Prize has been given to a single author; the remaining receive the Betty Trask Award. A blue ribbon ( ) indicates the winner for that year.
Betty Trask Award winners, 2000-2009
Year
Author
Title
Prize
Ref.
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
Hari Kunzru
The Impressionist
£8,000
[ 4]
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
Zoë 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
Peter Hobbs
The Short Day Dying
£5,000
Nicola Monaghan
The Killing Jar
£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
£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
Eleanor Catton
The Rehearsal
£8,000
Betty Trask Award winners, 2010-2019
Year
Author
Title
Prize
Ref.
2010
Nadifa Mohamed
Black Mamba Boy
£10,000
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
Anjali Joseph
Saraswati Park
£10,000
[ 5]
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
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
Chibundu Onuzo
The Spider King's Daughter
£7,000
Francesca Segal
The Innocents
£2,500
Will Wiles
Care of Wooden Floors
£2,500
2014
Nathan Filer
The Shock of the Fall
£10,000
[ 6]
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
Ben Fergusson
The Spring of Kasper Meier
£10,000
[ 7]
Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing
£5,000
Zoe Pilger
Eat My Heart Out
£5,000
Simon Wroe
Chop Chop
£5,000
2016
Alex Christofi
Glass
£10,000
[ 8]
Irenosen Okojie
Butterfly Fish
£5,000
Natasha Pulley
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
£5,000
Lucy Wood
Wood for Weathering
£5,000
2017
Daniel Shand
Fallow
£10,000
[ 8]
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
Omar Robert Hamilton
The City Always Wins
£10,000
Sarah Day
Mussolini's Island
£3,250
Clare Fisher
All the Good Things
£3,250
Eli Goldstone
Strange Heart Beating
£3,250
Lloyd Markham
Bad Ideas/Chemicals
£3,250
Masande Ntshanga
The Reactive
£3,250
2019
James Clarke
The Litten Path
£10,000
Samuel Fisher
The Chameleon
£2,700
Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
£2,700
Ruqaya Izzidien
The Watermelon Boys
£2,700
Daisy Lafarge
Paul
£2,700
Rebecca Ley
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land
£2,700
Sophie Mackintosh
The Water Cure
£2,700