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Betty Trask Prize and Awards

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{{Short description|Annual literary 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 at least {{Currency|20,000|GBP}}, with normally one author receiving a larger prize amount ({{Currency|10,000|GBP}} in very recent years), called the "Prize", and the remainder given to the other nominees, called the "Awards".{{cite web| title=Betty Trask | publisher = Society of Authors | url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/betty-trask}} 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.[http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html Betty Trask Prize and Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509002251/http://facstaff.unca.edu/moseley/trask.html |date=9 May 2009 }} They're given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and either published or unpublished works.{{cite web | title = The Betty Trask Prize and Awards | publisher=Christchurch City Libraries | access-date=4 November 2007 | url=http://library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/BettyTrask/}}

List of award and prize winners

=1980s=

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|+Betty Trask Prize and Award winners, 1984–1989

!Year

!Author

!Title

!Prize

rowspan="6" |1984

|{{sortname|last=Frame|first=Ronald}}

|Winter Journey

|£6,750

{{sortname|last=Nonhebel|first=Clare|nolink=1}}

|Cold Showers

|£6,750

{{sortname|last=Buchan|first=James}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Parish of Rich Women|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Harris|first=Helen|nolink=1}}

|Playing Fields in Winter

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Gareth|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Disinherited|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Rees|first=Simon|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Devil's Looking Glass|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

rowspan="6" |1985

|{{sortname|last=Kay|first=Susan}}

|Legacy

|£12,500

{{sortname|last=Armitage|first=Gary|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Season of Peace|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Ironside|first=Elizabeth}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Very Private Enterprise|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Mitchell|first=Alice|nolink=1}}

|Instead of Eden

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Schweiz|first=George|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Earth Abides For Ever|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Stickland|first=Caroline|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Standing Hills|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

rowspan="6" |1986

|{{sortname|last=Parks|first=Tim}}

|Tongues of Flame

|£9,000

{{sortname|last=Ferguson|first=Patricia|nolink=1}}

|Family, Myths and Legends

|£4,500

{{sortname|last=Blake|first=Philippa|nolink=1}}

|Mzungu's Wife

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Kneale|first=Matthew}}

|Whore Banquets

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=McLaughlin|first=J. F.|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Road to Dilmun|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Saunders|first=Kate}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Prodigal Father|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

rowspan="6" |1987

|{{sortname|last=Maw|first=James|nolink=1}}

|Hard Luck

|£8,000

{{sortname|last=Benson|first=Peter|link=Peter Benson (author)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Levels|nolink=1}}

|£4,500

{{sortname|last=Flint|first=Helen|nolink=1}}

|Return Journey

|£4,500

{{sortname|last=Arnold|first=Catherine|nolink=1}}

|Lost Time

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Bhabra|first=H. S.}}

|Gestures

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Pinney|first=Lucy|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Pink Stallion|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

rowspan="6" |1988

|{{sortname|last=Martin|first=Alex|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=General Interruptor MS|nolink=1}}

|£6,500

{{sortname|last=McWilliam|first=Candia}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Case of Knives|nolink=1}}

|£6,500

{{sortname|last=Andrewes|first=Georgina|nolink=1}}

|Behind the Waterfall

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Friel|first=James|nolink=1}}

|Left of North

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Patterson|first=Glenn}}

|Burning Your Own

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Webster|first=Susan|nolink=1}}

|Small Tales of a Town

|£2,000

rowspan="4" |1989

|{{sortname|last=Watts|first=Nigel|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Life Game|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Riviere|first=William|nolink=1}}

|Watercolour Sky

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Houghton|first=Paul|nolink=1}}

|Harry's Last Wedding

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=McKee|first=Alasdair|nolink=1}}

|Uncle Henry's Last Stand

|£2,000

= 1990s =

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|+Betty Trask Award winners, 1990–1999

!Year

!Author

!Title

!Prize

rowspan="4" |1990

|{{sortname|last=Wilson|first=Robert McLiam}}

|Ripley Bogle

|£16,000

{{sortname|last=Chadwick|first=Elizabeth}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wild Hunt|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Cohen|first=Rosemary|nolink=1}}

|No Strange Land

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Shakespeare|first=Nicholas}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Vision of Elena Silves|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

rowspan="6" |1991

|{{sortname|last=Chaudhuri|first=Amit}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Strange and Sublime Address|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Swallow|first=Mark|nolink=1}}

|Teaching Little Fang

|£7,000

{{sortname|last=Dunn|first=Suzannah}}

|Quite Contrary

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Glaister|first=Lesley}}

|Honour Thy Father

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Mason|first=Simon|link=Simon Mason (author)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Great English Nude|nolink=1}}

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Ricci|first=Nino}}

|Lives of the Saints

|£2,000

rowspan="5" |1992

|{{sortname|last=Rosenburg|first=Peter M.|nolink=1}}

|Kissing Through a Pane of Glass

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Fischer|first=Tibor}}

|Under the Frog

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Liane|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dream Stone|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Mullan|first=Eugene|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last of His Line|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=St Aubyn|first=Edward}}

|Never Mind

|£3,000

rowspan="5" |1993

|{{sortname|last=Blackaby|first=Mark|nolink=1}}

|You'll Never be Here Again

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Cowan|first=Andrew|link=Andrew Cowan (writer)}}

|Pig

|£7,000

{{sortname|last=Corrigan|first=Simon}}

|Tommy Was Here

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Briscoe|first=Joanna}}

|Mothers and Other Lovers

|£2,000

{{sortname|last=Fane|first=Olivia|nolink=1}}

|Landing on Clouds

|£2,000

rowspan="5" |1994

|{{sortname|last=Bateman|first=Colin}}

|Divorcing Jack

|£12,000

{{sortname|last=Aslam|first=Nadeem}}

|Season of the Rainbirds

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Burt|first=Guy}}

|After the Hole

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Liardet|first=Frances}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Game|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Rix|first=Jonathan|nolink=1}}

|Some Hope

|£1,000

rowspan="7" |1995

|{{sortname|last=Newman|first=Robert|link=Rob Newman (comedian)}}

|Dependence Day

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Behr|first=Mark}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Smell of Apples}}

|£8,000

{{sortname|last=Evans|first=Martina}}

|Midnight Feast

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Manchanda|first=Rohit|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Speck of Coaldust|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Thomas|first=Juliet|nolink=1}}

|Hallelujah Jordan

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Walshe|first=Philippa|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Latecomer|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Wickham|first=Madeleine}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Tennis Party|nolink=1}}

|£1,000

rowspan="4" |1996

|{{sortname|last=Lanchester|first=John}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Debt to Pleasure}}

|£8,000

{{sortname|last=Syal|first=Meera}}

|Anita and Me

|£7,000

{{sortname|last=Brook|first=Rhidian}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Testimony of Taliesin Jones|nolink=1}}

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Buss|first=Louis Caron|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Luxury of Exile|nolink=1}}

|£5,000

rowspan="5" |1997

|{{sortname|last=Garland|first=Alex}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Beach|link=The Beach (novel)}}

|£12,000

{{sortname|last=Barnard|first=Josie|nolink=1}}

|Poker Face

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Vakil|first=Ardashir}}

|Beach Boy

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Adebayo|first=Diran}}

|Some Kind of Black

|£1,500

{{sortname|last=O'Connell|first=Sanjida|nolink=1}}

|Theory of Mind

|£1,500

rowspan="5" |1998

|{{sortname|last=Desai|first=Kiran}}

|Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

|£10,000

{{sortname|last=Earls|first=Nick}}

|Zig Zag Street

|£8,000

{{sortname|last=Whitaker|first=Phil}}

|Eclipse of the Sun

|£5,000

{{sortname|last=Hill|first=Tobias}}

|Underground

|£1,000

{{sortname|last=Anderson-Dargatz|first=Gail}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Cure for Death by Lightning}}

| £1,000

rowspan="6" |1999

|{{sortname|last=Perlman|first=Elliot}}

|Three Dollars

|£7,000

{{sortname|last=Chidgey|first=Catherine}}

|In a Fishbone Church

|£6,000

{{sortname|last=Foden|first=Giles}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last King of Scotland}}

|£4,000

{{sortname|last=Bock|first=Dennis}}

|Olympia

|£3,000

{{sortname|last=Balasubramanyam|first=Rajeev}}

|In Beautiful Disguises

|£2,500

{{sortname|last=Waters|first=Sarah}}

|Tipping 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 ({{Blue ribbon}}) indicates the winner for that year.

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|+Betty Trask Award winners, 2000–2009

!Year

!Author

!Title

!Prize

!Ref.

rowspan="5" |2000

|{{sortname|last=Tulloch|first=Jonathan}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Season Ticket|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Leigh|first=Julia}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hunter|link=The Hunter (Leigh novel)}}

|£7,000

|

{{sortname|last=Elderkin|first=Susan}}

|Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

|£4,000

|

{{sortname|last=Craze|first=Galaxy}}

|By the Shore

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Griffin|first=Nicholas|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Requiem Shark|nolink=1}}

|£2,000

|

rowspan="6" |2001

|{{sortname|last=Smith|first=Zadie}}

|White Teeth

|£8,000

|

{{sortname|last=Hill|first=Justin|link=Justin Hill (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Drink and Dream Teahouse|nolink=1}}

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=O'Farrell|first=Maggie}}

|After You'd Gone

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Kelly|first=Vivien|nolink=1}}

|Take One Young Man

|£4,000

|

{{sortname|last=Hamid|first=Mohsin}}

|Moth Smoke

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=Neate|first=Patrick}}

|Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko

|£2,500

|

rowspan="7" |2002

|{{sortname|last=Kunzru|first=Hari}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Impressionist}}

|£8,000

|{{Cite news |last=Yates |first=Emma |date=2002-06-19 |title=Hari Kunzru wins Betty Trask Prize |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jun/19/news.emmayates |access-date=2023-02-03 |issn=0261-3077}}

{{sortname|last=Seiffert|first=Rachel}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Dark Room|link=The Dark Room (Seiffert novel)}}

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Sarif|first=Shamim}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=World Unseen|link=The World Unseen (novel)}}

|£4,000

|

{{sortname|last=Cross|first=Helen|link=Helen Cross (author)}}

|My Summer of Love

|£2,000

|{{cite web|url=https://societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/betty-trask-prize-awards/|title=Betty Trask Prize: Past winners|publisher=Society of Authors|access-date=2025-04-29}}

{{sortname|last=Hooper|first=Chloe}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Child's Book of True Crime|nolink=1}}

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Susanna}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Earthquake Bird}}

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Riley|first=Gwendoline}}

|Cold Water

|£2,000

|

rowspan="6" |2003

|{{sortname|last=McGregor|first=Jon}}

|If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Hall|first=Sarah|link=Sarah Hall (writer)}}

|Haweswater

|£6,000

|

{{sortname|last=Merritt|first=Stephanie}}

|Gaveston

|£4,000

|

{{sortname|last=Garner|first=Elizabeth|nolink=1}}

|Nightdancing

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Strachan|first=Zoë}}

|Negative Space

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Thirlwell|first=Adam}}

|Politics

|£1,000

|

rowspan="4" |2004

|{{sortname|last=Dean|first=Louise|link=Louise Dean (author)}}

|Becoming Strangers

|£8,000

|

{{sortname|last=MacDonald|first=Hannah|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Sun Road|nolink=1}}

|£6,000

|

{{sortname|last=Cartwright|first=Anthony|link=Anthony Cartwright (writer)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Afterglow|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Sanghvi|first=Siddharth Dhanvant}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last Song of Dusk|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

|

rowspan="3" |2005

|{{sortname|last=Fletcher|first=Susan|link=Susan Fletcher (British author)}}

|Eve Green

|£16,000

|

{{sortname|last=Evans|first=Diana}}

|26a

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Walsh|first=Helen}}

|Brass

|£2,000

|

rowspan="3" |2006

|{{sortname|last=Laird|first=Nick}}

|Utterly Monkey

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Hobbs|first=Peter|link=Peter Hobbs (novelist)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Short Day Dying|nolink=1}}

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Monaghan|first=Nicola}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Killing Jar|link=The Killing Jar (novel)}}

|£5,000

|

rowspan="5" |2007

|{{sortname|last=Davis|first=Will|nolink=1}}

|My Side of the Story

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Foulds|first=Adam}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Truth About These Strange Times|nolink=1}}

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=Jones|first=Cynan}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Long Dry|nolink=1}}

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=Maxwell|first=Julie|nolink=1}}

|You Can Live Forever

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=McLeod|first=Karen|nolink=1}}

|In Search of the Missing Eyelash

|£2,500

|

rowspan="4" |2008

|{{sortname|last=Szalay|first=David}}

|London and the South

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Raisin|first=Ross}}

|God's Own Country

|£6,000

|

{{sortname|last=Leveritt|first=Thomas}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Exchange Rate Between Love and Money|nolink=1}}

|£2,000

|

{{sortname|last=Ralph|first=Anna|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Floating Island|nolink=1}}

|£2,000

|

rowspan="2" |2009

|{{Blue ribbon}} {{sortname|last=Harvey|first=Samantha|link=Samantha Harvey (author)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Wilderness|nolink=1}}

|£12,000

|

{{sortname|last=Catton|first=Eleanor}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Rehearsal|nolink=|link=The Rehearsal (novel)}}

|£8,000

|

=2010s=

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|+Betty Trask Award winners, 2010–2019

!Year

!Author

!Title

!Prize

!Ref.

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="4" |2010

|{{sortname|last=Mohamed|first= Nadifa}}

|Black Mamba Boy

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Wyld|first=Evie}}

|After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

|£7,000

|

{{sortname|last=Ashworth|first=Jenn}}

|{{sortname|1=A|2=Kind of Intimacy|nolink=1}}

|£1,500

|

{{sortname|last=Nwaubani|first=Adaobi Tricia}}

|I Do Not Come to You By Chance

|£1,500

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="4" |2011

|{{sortname|last=Joseph|first= Anjali}}

|Saraswati Park

|£10,000

|{{Cite web |date=2011-06-23 |title=Indian writer wins Betty Trask award for debut novel |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-indian-writer-wins-betty-trask-award-for-debut-novel-1558298 |access-date=2023-02-04 |website=DNA India |language=en}}

{{sortname|last=Barton|first=Laura}}

|Twenty-One Locks

|£6,000

|

{{sortname|last=Lelic|first=Simon}}

|Rupture

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=Williams|first=Robert|nolink=1}}

|Luke and Jon

|£2,500

|

style=background:#cddeff

! rowspan="5" |2012

|{{sortname|last=Whitehouse|first= David|link=David Whitehouse (writer)}}

|Bed

|£8,000

|

{{sortname|last=Ashton|first=Kalinda}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Danger Game|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Day|first=Elizabeth}}

|Scissors, Paper, Stone

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Pitcher|first=Annabel}}

|My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Unsworth|first=Emma Jane}}

|Hungry the Stars and Everything

|£3,000

|

style=background:#cddeff

! rowspan="4" |2013

|{{sortname|last=McCleen|first= Grace}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Land of Decoration}}

|£8,000

|

{{sortname|last=Onuzo|first=Chibundu}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Spider King's Daughter}}

|£7,000

|

{{sortname|last=Segal|first=Francesca}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Innocents|nolink=1}}

|£2,500

|

{{sortname|last=Wiles|first=Will|nolink=1}}

|Care of Wooden Floors

|£2,500

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="5" |2014

|{{sortname|last=Filer|first= Nathan}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Shock of the Fall}}

|£10,000

|[http://www.societyofauthors.org/soa-news/authors%E2%80%99-awards-2014-%C2%A382300-awarded-29-authors-and-poets "Authors’ Awards 2014"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027034707/http://www.societyofauthors.org/soa-news/authors%E2%80%99-awards-2014-%C2%A382300-awarded-29-authors-and-poets|date=27 October 2014}}, The Society Of Authors, 27 June 2014.

{{sortname|last=Bulawayo|first=NoViolet}}

|We Need New Names

|£3,750

|

{{sortname|last=Byers|first=Sam}}

|Idiopathy

|£3,750

|

{{sortname|last=Fellowes|first=Mave|nolink=1}}

|Chaplin and Company

|£3,750

|

{{sortname|Matt|Greene|nolink=1|last=|first=}}

|Ostrich

|£3,750

|

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! rowspan="4" |2015

|{{sortname|last=Fergusson|first= Ben}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Spring of Kasper Meier|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

|[http://www.societyofauthors.org/soa-news/authors-awards-2015 "Authors’ Awards 2015"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150629060638/http://www.societyofauthors.org/soa-news/authors-awards-2015|date=29 June 2015}}, The Society Of Authors, 25 June 2015.

{{sortname|last=Healey|first=Emma}}

|Elizabeth Is Missing

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Pilger|first=Zoe}}

|Eat My Heart Out

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Wroe|first=Simon|nolink=1}}

|Chop Chop

|£5,000

|

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! rowspan="4" |2016

|{{sortname|last=Christofi|first= Alex}}

|Glass

|£10,000

|{{cite web |title=Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards |url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Fiction/Betty-Trask/Past-winners |access-date=6 July 2017 |website=Society of Authors}}

{{sortname|last=Okojie|first=Irenosen}}

|Butterfly Fish

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Pulley|first=Natasha}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Watchmaker of Filigree Street|nolink=1}}

|£5,000

|

{{sortname|last=Wood|first=Lucy|link=Lucy Wood (writer)}}

|Wood for Weathering

|£5,000

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="6" |2017

|{{sortname|last=Shand|first= Daniel|nolink=1}}

|Fallow

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Buchanan|first=Rowan Hisayo}}

|Harmless Like You

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=John|first=Elnathan}}

|Born on a Tuesday

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Jowitt|first=Kathleen|nolink=1}}

|Speak Its Name

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=McCarthy|first=Rob|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Hollow Men|nolink=1}}

|£3,000

|

{{sortname|last=Norris|first=Barney}}

|Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

|£3,000

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="6" |2018

|{{sortname|last=Hamilton|first= Omar Robert|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=City Always Wins|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Day|first=Sarah}}

|Mussolini's Island

|£3,250

|

{{sortname|last=Fisher|first=Clare|nolink=1}}

|All the Good Things

|£3,250

|

{{sortname|last=Goldstone|first=Eli|nolink=1}}

|Strange Heart Beating

|£3,250

|

{{sortname|last=Markham|first=Lloyd|nolink=1}}

|Bad Ideas/Chemicals

|£3,250

|

{{sortname|last=Ntshanga|first=Masande}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Reactive|nolink=1}}

|£3,250

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="7" |2019

|{{sortname|last=Clarke|first= James|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Litten Path|nolink=1}}

|£10,000

|

{{sortname|last=Fisher|first=Samuel|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Chameleon|nolink=1}}

|£2,700

|

{{sortname|last=Gowar|first=Imogen Hermes}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Mermaid and Mrs Hancock|nolink=1}}

|£2,700

|

{{sortname|last=Izzidien|first=Ruqaya}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Watermelon Boys|nolink=1}}

|£2,700

|

{{sortname|last=Lafarge|first=Daisy|link=Daisy Lafarge}}

|Paul

|£2,700

|

{{sortname|last=Ley|first=Rebecca|nolink=1}}

|Sweet Fruit, Sour Land

|£2,700

|

{{sortname|last=Mackintosh|first=Sophie}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Water Cure|link=The Water Cure (Mackintosh novel)}}

|£2,700

|

= 2020s =

class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"

|+Betty Trask Award winners, 2020–present

!Year

!Author

!Title

!Prize

!Ref.

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="4" |2020

|{{sortname|last=Hind|first= Kathryn|nolink=1}}

|Hitch

|£10,000

|{{Cite web |date=2020-06-19 |title=Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for ‘Hitch’ |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/06/19/152268/hind-wins-10000-betty-trask-prize-for-hitch/ |access-date=2020-06-19 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}

{{sortname|last=Halls|first=Stacey}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Familiars|nolink=1}}

|£5,400

|

{{sortname|last=Hammad|first=Isabella}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Parisian|nolink=1}}

|£5,400

|

{{sortname|last=Nzelu|first=Okeychukwu|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney|nolink=1}}

|£5,400

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="6" |2021

|{{sortname|last=McMullan|first= Thomas

nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Last Good Man|nolink=1}}

|

|

{{sortname|last=Armstrong|first=Graeme|link=Graeme Armstrong (author)}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Young Team|nolink=1}}

|

|

{{sortname|last=Blue|first=Maame|nolink=1}}

|Bad Love

|

|

{{sortname|last=Hargrave|first=Kiran Millwood}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Mercies|nolink=1}}

|

|

{{sortname|last=Williams|first=Eley}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Liar’s Dictionary|nolink=1}}

|

|

{{sortname|last=Ike-Njoku|first=Nneoma|nolink=1}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Water House|nolink=1}}

|

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="5" |2022

|{{sortname|last=McPhail|first= Will}}

|IN: The Graphic Novel

|

|{{Cite web |title=News {{!}} The Society of Authors |url=https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2022/June/2022-Society-of-Authors-winners |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=societyofauthors.org}}

{{sortname|last=Blakemore|first=A. K.}}

|{{sortname|1=The|2=Manningtree Witches|nolink=1}}

|

|

{{sortname|Natasha|Brown|last=|first=|link=Natasha Brown (author)}}

|Assembly

|

|

{{sortname|last=Nelson|first=Caleb Azumah}}

|Open Water

|

|

{{sortname|last=Nolan|first=Megan}}

|Acts of Desperation

|

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="4" |2023

|{{Sortname|first=Daniel|last=Wiles|nolink=1}}

|Mercia's Take

|£10,000

|{{Cite web |last=rachel |date=2023-05-24 |title=Mercia's Take has won The Betty Trask Prize |url=https://swiftpress.com/mercias-take-has-been-shortlisted-for-the-betty-trask-prize/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=Swift Press |language=en-GB}}

{{Sort name|first=Paddy|last=Crewe|nolink=1}}

|My Name Is Yip

|

|

Imogen Crimp

|{{Sort|Very Nice Girl|A Very Nice Girl}}

|

|

Maddie Mortimer

|Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

|

|

style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="6" |2024

|{{Sortname|first=Tom|last=Crewe}}

|The New Life

|£10,000

|{{cite web |title=The 2024 Betty Trask Prize winner |url=https://societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/betty-trask-prize-awards/ |website=The Society of Authors |access-date=15 November 2024}}

{{Sort name|first=Stephen|last=Buoro}}

|The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

|

|

{{Sort name|first=Rachel|last=Connoly|nolink=1}}

|Lazy City

|

|

{{Sort name|first=Rachel|last=Dawson|nolink=1}}

|Neon Roses

|

|

{{Sort name|first=C. E.|last=McGill|nolink=1}}

|Our Hideous Progeny

|

|

{{Sort name|first=Nathan|last=Munday|nolink=1}}

|Whaling

|

|

rowspan="6" |2025

|{{Sort name|first=Bonnie|last=Burke-Patel|nolink=1}}

|I Died at Fallow Hall

|

|rowspan=6|{{cite web|url=https://societyofauthors.org/2025/05/21/incantatory-spell-binding-and-resonant-announcing-the-2025-society-of-authors-awards-shortlists/ |author=McDonald, Teddy |date=21 May 2025 |access-date=14 June 2025 |website=Society of Authors |title=‘Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant’ – announcing the 2025 Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists}}

{{Sort name|first=Madeline|last=Docherty|nolink=1}}

|Gender Theory

|

{{Sort name|first=Genevieve|last=Jagger|nolink=1}}

|Fragile Animals

|

{{Sort name|first=Ashani|last=Lewis|nolink=1}}

|Winter Animals

|

{{Sort name|first=Elizabeth|last=O'Connor|nolink=1}}

|Whale Fall

|

{{Sort name|first=Nicolas|last=Padamsee|nolink=1}}

|England Is Mine

|

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722223137/http://www.societyofauthors.org/betty-trask-past-winners The Betty Trask Prizes and Awards: Past Winners]

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