BETTY TRASK AWARD

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or romantic novels, while those of an experimental nature are excluded.[2] Awards are given for both published and unpublished works.[3]. They are funded from a bequest by the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.[4]

Contents
Notable winners
Reference

Notable winners


''Note: This list is not complete for each year.
YearAuthorBookAward
1984James Buchan''A Parish of Rich Women ''£1,000
1985Susan Kay''Legacy''£12,500
1986Tim Parks''Tongues of Flame''£9,000
Matthew Kneale''Whore Banquets''£1,000
Kate Saunders''The Prodigal Father''£1,000
1987H. S. Bhabra''Gestures''£1,000
Peter Benson''The Levels''£4,500
1988Candia McWilliam''A Case of Knives''£6,500
Glenn Patterson''Burning Your Own''£2,000
1990Robert McLiam Wilson''Ripley Bogle''£16,000
Nicholas Shakespeare''The Vision of Elena Silves''£3,000
1991Amit Chaudhuri''A Strange and Sublime Address''£10,000
Lesley Glaister''Honour Thy Father''£2,000
Nino Ricci''Lives of the Saints''£2,000
1992Tibor Fischer''Under the Frog''£3,000
Edward St Aubyn''Never Mind''£3,000
1993Joanna Briscoe''Mothers and Other Lovers''£3,000
1994Colin Bateman''Divorcing Jack''£3,000
Nadeem Aslam''Season of the Rainbirds''£10,000
Guy Burt''After the Hole''£1,000
1995Mark Behr''The Smell of Apples''£8,000
Madeleine Wickham''The Tennis Party''£1,000
1996Meera Syal''Anita and Me''£2,000
John Lanchester''The Debt to Pleasure''£8,000
1997Alex Garland''The Beach''£12,000
Ardashir Vakil''Beach Boy''£5,000
Diran Adebayo''Some Kind of Black''£1,500
1998Kiran Desai''Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard''£10,000
Nick Earls''Zigzag Street''£8,000
Tobias Hill''Underground''£1,000
1999Elliot 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
2001Zadie 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
2002Hari 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
2003Stephanie 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
2005Helen Walsh''Brass''£2,000
2006Nick Laird''Utterly Monkey''£10,000
Nicola Monaghan''The Killing Jar''£5,000
Peter Hobbs''The Short Day Dying''£5,000

Reference


1. Society of Authors — Prizes, Grants and Awards
2. The Betty Trask Prize and Awards
3. Prizes, grants and awards
4. http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html


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