Betty Trask Prize and Awards

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 at least , with normally one author receiving a larger prize amount ( in very recent years), called the "Prize", and the remainder given to the other nominees, called the "Awards". These were established in 1984 by the Society of Authors at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.Betty Trask Prize and Awards They're given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and either published or unpublished works.

List of award and prize winners 1980s +Betty Trask Prize and Award winners, 1984–1989YearAuthorTitlePrize1984Winter Journey£6,750Cold Showers£6,750£1,000Playing Fields in Winter£1,000£1,000£1,0001985Legacy£12,500£1,000£1,000Instead of Eden£1,000£1,000£1,0001986Tongues of Flame£9,000Family, Myths and Legends£4,500Mzungu's Wife£1,000Whore Banquets£1,000£1,000£1,0001987Hard Luck£8,000£4,500Return Journey£4,500Lost Time£1,000Gestures£1,000£1,0001988£6,500£6,500Behind the Waterfall£2,000Left of North£2,000Burning Your Own£2,000Small Tales of a Town£2,0001989£10,000Watercolour Sky£5,000Harry's Last Wedding£2,000Uncle Henry's Last Stand£2,000

1990s +Betty Trask Award winners, 1990–1999YearAuthorTitlePrize1990Ripley Bogle£16,000£3,000No Strange Land£3,000£3,0001991£10,000Teaching Little Fang£7,000Quite Contrary£2,000Honour Thy Father£2,000£2,000Lives of the Saints£2,0001992Kissing Through a Pane of Glass£5,000Under the Frog£3,000£3,000£3,000Never Mind£3,0001993You'll Never be Here Again£10,000Pig£7,000Tommy Was Here£5,000Mothers and Other Lovers£2,000Landing on Clouds£2,0001994Divorcing Jack£12,000Season of the Rainbirds£10,000After the Hole£1,000£1,000Some Hope£1,0001995Dependence Day£10,000£8,000Midnight Feast£3,000£1,000Hallelujah Jordan£1,000£1,000£1,0001996£8,000Anita and Me£7,000£5,000£5,0001997£12,000Poker Face£5,000Beach Boy£5,000Some Kind of Black£1,500Theory of Mind£1,5001998Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard£10,000Zig Zag Street£8,000Eclipse of the Sun£5,000Underground£1,000 £1,0001999Three Dollars£7,000In a Fishbone Church£6,000£4,000Olympia£3,000In Beautiful Disguises£2,500Tipping the Velvet£1,000

2000s Since 2009, the Betty Trask Prize has been given to a single author; the remaining receive the Betty Trask Award. A blue ribbon () indicates the winner for that year. +Betty Trask Award winners, 2000–2009YearAuthorTitlePrizeRef.2000£10,000£7,000Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains£4,000By the Shore£2,000£2,0002001White Teeth£8,000£5,000After You'd Gone£5,000Take One Young Man£4,000Moth Smoke£2,500Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko£2,5002002£8,000£5,000£4,000My Summer of Love£2,000£2,000£2,000Cold Water£2,0002003If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things£10,000Haweswater£6,000Gaveston£4,000Nightdancing£2,000Negative Space£2,000Politics£1,0002004Becoming Strangers£8,000£6,000£3,000£3,0002005Eve Green£16,00026a£2,000Brass£2,0002006Utterly Monkey£10,000£5,000£5,0002007My Side of the Story£10,000£2,500£2,500You Can Live Forever£2,500In Search of the Missing Eyelash£2,5002008London and the South-East£10,000God's Own Country£6,000£2,000£2,0002009 £12,000£8,000

2010s +Betty Trask Award winners, 2010–2019YearAuthorTitlePrizeRef.2010Black Mamba Boy£10,000After the Fire, A Still Small Voice£7,000£1,500I Do Not Come to You By Chance£1,5002011Saraswati Park£10,000Twenty-One Locks£6,000Rupture£2,500Luke and Jon£2,5002012Bed£8,000£3,000Scissors, Paper, Stone£3,000My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece£3,000Hungry the Stars and Everything£3,0002013£8,000£7,000£2,500Care of Wooden Floors£2,5002014£10,000"Authors’ Awards 2014" , The Society Of Authors, 27 June 2014.We Need New Names£3,750Idiopathy£3,750Chaplin and Company£3,750Ostrich£3,7502015£10,000"Authors’ Awards 2015" , The Society Of Authors, 25 June 2015.Elizabeth Is Missing£5,000Eat My Heart Out£5,000Chop Chop£5,0002016Glass£10,000Butterfly Fish£5,000£5,000Wood for Weathering£5,0002017Fallow£10,000Harmless Like You£3,000Born on a Tuesday£3,000Speak Its Name£3,000£3,000Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain£3,0002018£10,000Mussolini's Island£3,250All the Good Things£3,250Strange Heart Beating£3,250Bad Ideas/Chemicals£3,250£3,2502019£10,000£2,700£2,700£2,700Paul£2,700Sweet Fruit, Sour Land£2,700£2,700

2020s +Betty Trask Award winners, 2020–presentYearAuthorTitlePrizeRef.2020Hitch£10,000£5,400£5,400£5,4002021Bad Love2022IN: The Graphic NovelAssemblyOpen WaterActs of Desperation 2023Mercia's Take£10,000My Name Is YipImogen CrimpMaddie MortimerMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies2024The New Life£10,000The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy AfricaLazy CityNeon RosesOur Hideous ProgenyWhaling2025I Died at Fallow HallGender TheoryFragile AnimalsWinter Animals£10,000Whale FallEngland Is Mine

References

External links The Betty Trask Prizes and Awards: Past Winners