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] Society of Authors , at the bequest of the late Betty Trask , a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.[2] [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 (
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
