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or romantic novels, while those of an experimental nature are excluded.^[2] Awards are given for both published and unpublished works.^[3].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]

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Notable winners

Reference

Notable winners

''Note: This list is not complete for each year.

Year	Author	Book	Award
1984	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	H. S. Bhabra	''Gestures''	£1,000
	Peter Benson	''The Levels''	£4,500
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	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

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