Betty Trask Award
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The Betty Trask Award for a first novel given by the Society of Authors to citizens of the Commonwealth under the age of 35. The awards have been established since 1984 and total £25,000 each year.[1] The prizes are awarded to traditional or romantic novels, while those of an experimental nature are excluded.[2] Awards are given for both published and unpublished works. They are funded from a bequest by the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.[3]
[edit] Notable winners
Note: This list is not complete for each year.
| Year | Author | Book | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Clare Nonhebel | Cold Showers | £6,750 |
| James Buchan | A Parish of Rich Women | £1,000 | |
| 1985 | Susan Kay | Legacy | £12,500 |
| 1986 | Tim Parks | Tongues of Flame | £9,000 |
| Matthew Kneale | Whore Banquets | £1,000 | |
| Kate Saunders | The Prodigal Father | £1,000 | |
| 1987 | Peter Benson | The Levels | £4,500 |
| H. S. Bhabra | Gestures | £1,000 | |
| 1988 | Candia McWilliam | A Case of Knives | £6,500 |
| Glenn Patterson | Burning Your Own | £2,000 | |
| 1990 | Robert McLiam Wilson | Ripley Bogle | £16,000 |
| Nicholas Shakespeare | The Vision of Elena Silves | £3,000 | |
| 1991 | Amit Chaudhuri | A Strange and Sublime Address | £10,000 |
| Lesley Glaister | Honour Thy Father | £2,000 | |
| Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints | £2,000 | |
| 1992 | Tibor Fischer | Under the Frog | £3,000 |
| Edward St Aubyn | Never Mind | £3,000 | |
| 1993 | Joanna Briscoe | Mothers and Other Lovers | £3,000 |
| 1994 | Colin Bateman | Divorcing Jack | £3,000 |
| Nadeem Aslam | Season of the Rainbirds | £10,000 | |
| Guy Burt | After the Hole | £1,000 | |
| 1995 | Mark Behr | The Smell of Apples | £8,000 |
| Madeleine Wickham | The Tennis Party | £1,000 | |
| 1996 | Meera Syal | Anita and Me | £2,000 |
| John Lanchester | The Debt to Pleasure | £8,000 | |
| 1997 | Alex Garland | The Beach | £12,000 |
| Ardashir Vakil | Beach Boy | £5,000 | |
| Diran Adebayo | Some Kind of Black | £1,500 | |
| 1998 | Kiran Desai | Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard | £10,000 |
| Nick Earls | Zigzag Street | £8,000 | |
| Tobias Hill | Underground | £1,000 | |
| 1999 | Elliot Perlman | Three Dollars | £7,000 |
| Giles Foden | The Last King of Scotland | £4,000 | |
| Sarah Waters | Tipping the Velvet | £1,000 | |
| Catherine Chidgey | In a Fishbone Church | £6,000 | |
| Dennis Bock | Olympia | £3,000 | |
| Rajeev Balasubramanyam | In Beautiful Disguises | £2,500 | |
| 2001 | Zadie Smith | White Teeth | £8,000 |
| Mohsin Hamid | Moth Smoke | £2,500 | |
| Justin Hill | The Drink and Dream Teahouse | £5,000 | |
| Maggie O'Farrell | After You'd Gone | £5,000 | |
| Patrick Neate | Musungu Jim | £2,500 | |
| 2002 | Hari Kunzru | The Impressionist | £8,000 |
| Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | £5,000 | |
| Helen Cross | My Summer of Love | £2,000 | |
| Gwendoline Riley | Cold Water | £2,000 | |
| 2003 | Stephanie Merritt | Gaveston | £4,000 |
| Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | £10,000 | |
| Adam Thirlwell | Politics | £1,000 | |
| Zoe Strachan | Negative Space | £2,000 | |
| 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 |
[edit] References
- ^ Society of Authors — Prizes, Grants and Awards. Society of Authors. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
- ^ The Betty Trask Prize and Awards. Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
- ^ Betty Trask Prize and Awards
