Betty Trask Prize and Awards

Given by Society of Authors

160 obres 62,001 Llibres 2,118 Ressenyes ½ 3.7

Endowed by a bequest from the late Betty Trask, a somewhat reclusive author of over thirty romance novels, this award is administered by the Society of Authors. Writers under 35 are eligible for a

mostra'n més first novel; unusually, it need not have been published. The terms of the bequest specified that the award was to recognize "a romantic novel or other novel of a traditional rather than experimental nature," though the judging panel seems to have interpreted these instructions liberally. Each year there is one Betty Trask Prize, worth £12,000 (or occasionally two, in case of tie), and several more Betty Trask Awards, worth £5,000 or £1,500. mostra'n menys
Categories:
Tots, Award (120), Prize (40)
Years:
Tots, 2023 (4), 2022 (1), 2021 (4), 2020 (1), 2019 (6), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (4), 2015 (4), 2014 (4), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (4), 2010 (4), 2009 (2), 2008 (4), 2007 (5), 2006 (3), 2005 (3), 2004 (4), 2003 (6), 2002 (7), 2001 (6), 2000 (5), 1999 (6), 1998 (5), 1997 (4), 1996 (4), 1995 (4), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (4), 1991 (5), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (6), 1987 (4), 1986 (4), 1985 (4), 1984 (5)
ObraCategoriaAny
My Name Is Yip de Paddy Crewe
Award2023
A Very Nice Girl de Imogen Crimp
Award2023
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies de Maddie Mortimer
Award2023
Mercia's Take de Daniel Wiles
Award2023
In. de Will McPhail
Prize2022
The Young Team de Graeme Armstrong
Award2021
The Mercies de Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Award2021
The Liar's Dictionary de Eley Williams
Award2021
The Last Good Man de Thomas McMullan
Prize2021
Hitch de Kathryn Hind
Prize2020
The Chameleon de Samuel Fisher
Award2019
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock de Imogen Hermes Gowar
Award2019
The Watermelon Boys de Ruqaya Izzidien
Award2019
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land de Rebecca Ley
Award2019
The Water Cure de Sophie Mackintosh
Award2019
The Litten Path de James Clarke
Prize2019
The City Always Wins de Omar Robert Hamilton
Prize2018
Fallow de Daniel Shand
Prize2017
Butterfly Fish de Irenosen Okojie
Award2016
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street de Natasha Pulley
Award2016
Weathering de Lucy Wood
Award2016
Glass de Alex Christofi
Prize2016
Elizabeth Is Missing de Emma Healey
Award2015
Eat My Heart Out de Zoe Pilger
Award2015
El xef de Simon Wroe
Award2015
The Spring of Kasper Meier de Ben Fergusson
Prize2015
We Need New Names de NoViolet Bulawayo
Award2014
Chaplin & Company: A Novel de Mave Fellowes
Award2014
Ostrich de Matt Greene
Award2014
The Shock of the Fall de Nathan Filer
Prize2014
The Spider King's Daughter de Chibundu Onuzo
Award2013
The Innocents de Francesca Segal
Award2013
Care of Wooden Floors de Will Wiles
Award2013
The Land of Decoration de Grace McCleen
Prize2013
The Danger Game de Kalinda Ashton
Award2012
Scissors, Paper, Stone de Elizabeth Day
Award2012
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece de Annabel Pitcher
Award2012
Hungry, the Stars and Everything de Emma Jane Unsworth
Award2012
Bed de David Whitehouse
Prize2012
Twenty-One Locks de Laura Barton
Award2011
Rupture de Simon Lelic
Award2011
Luke and Jon de Robert Williams
Award2011
Saraswati Park de Anjali Joseph
Prize2011
A Kind of Intimacy de Jenn Ashworth
Award2010
I Do Not Come to You By Chance de Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Award2010
After the Fire, a Still, Small Voice de Evie Wyld
Award2010
Black Mamba Boy de Nadifa Mohamed
Prize2010
The Rehearsal de Eleanor Catton
Award2009
The Wilderness de Samantha Harvey
Prize2009
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money de Thomas Leveritt
Award2008
God's Own Country de Ross Raisin
Award2008
The Floating Island de Anna Ralph
Award2008
London and the South-East de David Szalay
Prize2008
The Truth About These Strange Times de Adam Foulds
Award2007
The Long Dry de Cynan Jones
Award2007
You Can Live Forever de Julie Maxwell
Award2007
In Search of the Missing Eyelash de Karen Mcleod
Award2007
My Side of the Story de Will Davis
Prize2007
The Short Day Dying de Peter Hobbs
Award2006
The Killing Jar de Nicola Monaghan
Award2006
Utterly Monkey de Nick Laird
Prize2006
26a de Diana Evans
Award2005
Brass de Helen Walsh
Award2005
Eve Green de Susan Fletcher
Prize2005
The Afterglow de Anthony Cartwright
Award2004
The Sun Road de Hannah MacDonald
Award2004
The Last Song of Dusk de Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Award2004
Becoming Strangers de Louise Dean
Prize2004
Nightdancing de Elizabeth Garner
Award2003
Haweswater de Sarah Hall
Award2003
Gaveston de Stephanie Merritt
Award2003
Negative Space de Zoë Strachan
Award2003
Politics de Adam Thirlwell
Award2003
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things de Jon McGregor
Prize2003
My Summer of Love de Helen Cross
Award2002
A Child's Book of True Crime de Chloe Hooper
Award2002
The Earthquake Bird de Susanna Jones
Award2002
Cold Water de Gwendoline Riley
Award2002
The World Unseen de Shamim Sarif
Award2002
The Dark Room de Rachel Seiffert
Award2002
The Impressionist de Hari Kunzru
Prize2002
Moth Smoke de Mohsin Hamid
Award2001
The Drink and Dream Teahouse de Justin Hill
Award2001
Take One Young Man de Vivien Kelly
Award2001
Musungu Jim de Patrick Neate
Award2001
After You'd Gone de Maggie O'Farrell
Award2001
White Teeth de Zadie Smith
Prize2001
By the Shore de Galaxy Craze
Award2000
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains de Susan Elderkin
Award2000
The Requiem Shark de Nicholas Griffin
Award2000
The Hunter de Julia Leigh
Award2000
The Season Ticket de Jonathan Tulloch
Prize2000
In Beautiful Disguises de Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Award1999
Olympia de Dennis Bock
Award1999
In a Fishbone Church de Catherine Chidgey
Award1999
The Last King of Scotland de Giles Foden
Award1999
Besar el vellut de Sarah Waters
Award1999
Three Dollars de Elliot Perlman
Prize1999
The Cure for Death by Lightning de Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Award1998
Zigzag Street de Nick Earls
Award1998
Underground de Tobias Hill
Award1998
Eclipse of the Sun de Phil Whitaker
Award1998
Enrenou al guaiaber de Kiran Desai
Prize1998
Some Kind of Black de Diran Adebayo
Award1997
Theory of Mind de Sanjida O'Connell
Award1997
Beach Boy de Ardashir Vakil
Award1997
The Beach de Alex Garland
Prize1997
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones de Rhidian Brook
Award1996
The Luxury of Exile de Louis Buss
Award1996
Anita and Me de Meera Syal
Award1996
The Debt to Pleasure de John Lanchester
Prize1996
The Smell of Apples de Mark Behr
Award1995
Midnight Feast de Martina Evans
Award1995
40 Love de Madeleine Wickham
Award1995
Dependence Day de Robert Newman
Prize1995
The Game de Frances Liardet
Award1994
Season of the Rainbirds de Nadeem Aslam
Award1994
The Hole de Guy Burt
Award1994
Divorcing Jack de Colin Bateman
Prize1994
Mothers and Other Lovers de Joanna Briscoe
Award1993
Pig de Andrew Cowan
Award1993
You'll Never Be Here Again de Mark Blackaby
Prize1993
Under the Frog de Tibor Fischer
Award1992
Kissing Through a Pane of Glass de Peter Michael Rosenberg
Award1992
Never Mind de Edward St. Aubyn
Award1992
The Dreamstone de Liane Jones
Prize1992
Quite Contrary de Suzannah Dunn
Award1991
Honour Thy Father de Lesley Glaister
Award1991
Lives of the Saints de Nino Ricci
Award1991
Teaching Little Fang de Mark Swallow
Award1991
A Strange and Sublime Address de Amit Chaudhuri
Prize1991
The Wild Hunt de Elizabeth Chadwick
Award1990
The Vision of Elena Silves de Nicholas Shakespeare
Award1990
Ripley Bogle de Robert McLiam Wilson
Prize1990
Uncle Henry's Last Stand de Alasdair McKee
Award1989
Watercolour Sky de William Rivière
Award1989
The Life Game de Nigel Watts
Prize1989
Behind the Waterfall de Georgina Andrews
Award1988
Left of North de James Friel
Award1988
Burning Your Own de Glenn Patterson
Award1988
Small Tales of a Town de Susan Webster
Award1988
The General Interrupter de Alex Martin
Prize1988
A Case Of Knives de Candia McWilliam
Prize1988
Lost Time de Catherine Arnold
Award1987
Gestures de H. S. Bhabra
Award1987
Hard Luck de James Maw
Award1987
The Levels de Peter Benson
Prize1987
Family Myths and Legends de Patricia Ferguson
Award1986
Whore Banquets de Matthew Kneale
Award1986
The Prodigal Father de Kate Saunders
Award1986
Tongues of Flame de Tim Parks
Prize1986
A Very Private Enterprise de Elizabeth Ironside
Award1985
Instead of Eden de Alice Mitchell
Award1985
The Standing Hills de Caroline Stickland
Award1985
Legacy de Susan Kay
Prize1985
A Parish of Rich Women de James Buchan
Award1984
Playing Fields In Winter de Helen Harris
Award1984
Cold Showers de Clare Nonhebel
Award1984
Devil's Looking-glass de Simon Rees
Award1984
Winter Journey de Ronald Frame
Prize1984
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Endowed by a bequest from the late Betty Trask, a somewhat reclusive author of over thirty romance novels, this award is administered by the Society of Authors. Writers under 35 are eligible for a first novel; unusually, it need not have been published. The terms of the bequest specified that the award was to recognize "a romantic novel or other novel of a traditional rather than experimental nature," though the judging panel seems to have interpreted these instructions liberally. Each year there is one Betty Trask Prize, worth £12,000 (or occasionally two, in case of tie), and several more Betty Trask Awards, worth £5,000 or £1,500.

(English, Escrit per membres)
Endowed by a bequest from the late Betty Trask, a somewhat reclusive author of over thirty romance novels, this award is administered by the Society of Authors. Writers under 35 are eligible for a first novel; unusually, it need not have been published. The terms of the bequest specified that the award was to recognize "a romantic novel or other novel of a traditional rather than experimental nature," though the judging panel seems to have interpreted these instructions liberally. Each year there is one Betty Trask Prize, worth £12,000 (or occasionally two, in case of tie), and several more Betty Trask Awards, worth £5,000 or £1,500.

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