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are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.[3]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
  • Clare Nonhebel for Cold Showers - £6,750
  • James Buchan for A Parish of Rich Women - £1,000
  • Helen Harris for Playing Fields in Winter - £1,000
  • Gareth Jones for The Disinherited - £1,000
  • Simon Rees for The Devil's Looking Glass - £1,000

1985

  • Susan Kay for Legacy - £12,500
  • Gary Armitage for A Season of Peace - £1,000
  • Elizabeth Ironside for A Very Private Enterprise - £1,000
  • Alice Mitchell for Instead of Eden - £1,000
  • Caroline Stickland for The Standing Hills - £1,000
  • George Schweiz for The Earth Abides For Ever - £1,000

1986

  • Tim Parks for Tongues of Flame - £9,000
  • Patricia Ferguson for Family, Myths and Legends - £4,500
  • Philippa Blake for Mzungu's Wife - £1,000
  • Matthew Kneale for Whore Banquets - £1,000
  • J. F. McLaughlin for The Road to Dilmun - £1,000
  • Kate Saunders for The Prodigal Father - £1,000

1987

1988

  • Alex Martin for The General Interruptor MS - £6,500
  • Candia McWilliam for A Case of Knives - £6,500
  • Georgina Andrewes for Behind the Waterfall - £2,000
  • James Friel for Left of North - £2,000
  • Glenn Patterson for Burning Your Own - £2,000
  • Susan Webster for Small Tales of a Town - £2,000

1989

  • Nigel Watts for The Life Game - £10,000
  • William Riviere for Watercolour Sky - £5,000
  • Paul Houghton for Harry's Last Wedding - £2,000
  • Alasdair McKee for Uncle Henry's Last Stand - £2,000

1990s

1990

1991

1992

  • Peter M. Rosenburg for Kissing Through a Pane of Glass - £5,000
  • Tibor Fischer for Under the Frog - £3,000
  • Liane Jones for The Dream Stone - £3,000
  • Eugene Mullan for The Last of His Line - £3,000
  • Edward St Aubyn for Never Mind - £3,000

1993

  • Mark Blackaby for You'll Never be Here Again - £10,000
  • Andrew Cowan for Pig - £7,000
  • Simon Corrigan for Tommy Was Here - £5,000
  • Joanna Briscoe for Mothers and Other Lovers - £2,000
  • Olivia Fane for Landing on Clouds - £2,000

1994

1995

  • Robert Newman for Dependence Day - £10,000
  • Mark Behr for The Smell of Apples - £8,000
  • Martina Evans for Midnight Feast - £3,000
  • Rohit Manchanda for A Speck of Coaldust - £1,000
  • Juliet Thomas for Hallelujah Jordan - £1,000
  • Philippa Walshe for The Latecomer - £1,000
  • Madeleine Wickham for The Tennis Party - £1,000

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000s

2000

2001

2002 [4]

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

  • Will Davis 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
  • Julie Maxwell for You Can Live Forever - £2,500
  • Karen Mcleod 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
  • Anna Ralph for The Floating Island - £2,000

2009

2010s

2010

2011 [5]

2012

2013

2014 [6]

2015 [7]

2016 [8]

2017 [8]

  • Daniel Shand 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

  • James Clarke for The Litten Path - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Samuel Fisher for The Chameleon - £2,700
  • Imogen Hermes Gowar for The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - £2,700
  • Ruqaya Izzidien for The Watermelon Boys - £2,700
  • Daisy Lafarge 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

References
  1. "Betty Trask". Society of Authors.
  2. Betty Trask Prize and Awards Archived 9 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "The Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
  4. "Hari Kunzru wins Betty Trask Prize", The Guardian, 19 June 2002.
  5. "Indian writer wins Betty Trask award for debut novel", Daily News and Analysis, 23 June 2011.
  6. "Authors’ Awards 2014", The Society Of Authors, 27 June 2014.
  7. "Authors’ Awards 2015" Archived 29 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, The Society Of Authors, 25 June 2015.
  8. "Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  9. "Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for 'Hitch'". Books+Publishing. 19 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
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