Betty Trask Award
Riconoscimenti destinato ad autori esordienti under 35 residenti nel Commonwealth
Assegnato da	Society of Authors
Paese	Regno Unito
Anno inizio	1984
Sito web	www.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Society-of-Authors-Awards/Betty-Trask
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Il Betty Trask Award è un premio letterario britannico assegnato annualmente dal sindacato di scrittori denominato Society of Authors^[1].

Istituito nel 1983 su lascito della scrittrice di romanzi rosa Betty Trask^[2], è destinato ad autori esordienti sotto i 35 anni^[3] residenti nel Commonwealth^[4].

A partire dal 2009 un vincitore si aggiudica il premio principale (Betty Trask Prize) del valore di £10000 mentre gli altri autori premiati ricevono il Betty Trask Award di 5000 sterline^[5].

1984

• Ronald Frame per Winter Journey - £6,750
• Clare Nonhebel per Cold Showers - £6,750
• James Buchan per A Parish of Rich Women - £1,000
• Helen Harris per Playing Fields in Winter - £1,000
• Gareth Jones per The Disinherited - £1,000
• Simon Rees per The Devil's Looking Glass - £1,000

1985

• Susan Kay per Legacy - £12,500
• Gary Armitage per A Season of Peace - £1,000
• Elizabeth Ironside per A Very Private Enterprise - £1,000
• Alice Mitchell per Instead of Eden - £1,000
• Caroline Stickland per The Standing Hills - £1,000
• George Schweiz per The Earth Abides For Ever - £1,000

1986

• Tim Parks per Lingue di fuoco (Tongues of Flame) - £9,000
• Patricia Ferguson per Family, Myths and Legends - £4,500
• Philippa Blake per Mzungu's Wife - £1,000
• Matthew Kneale per Whore Banquets - £1,000
• J. F. McLaughlin per The Road to Dilmun - £1,000
• Kate Saunders per The Prodigal Father - £1,000

1987

• James Maw per Hard Luck - £8,000
• Peter Benson per The Levels - £4,500
• Helen Flint per Return Journey - £4,500
• Catherine Arnold per Lost Time - £1,000
• H. S. Bhabra per Gestures - £1,000
• Lucy Pinney per The Pink Stallion - £1,000

1988

• Alex Martin per The General Interruptor MS - £6,500
• Candia McWilliam per A doppio taglio (A Case of Knives) - £6,500
• Georgina Andrewes per Behind the Waterfall - £2,000
• James Friel per Left of North - £2,000
• Glenn Patterson per Burning Your Own - £2,000
• Susan Webster per Small Tales of a Town - £2,000

1989

• Nigel Watts per The Life Game - £10,000
• William Riviere per Watercolour Sky - £5,000
• Paul Houghton per Harry's Last Wedding - £2,000
• Alasdair McKee per Uncle Henry's Last Stand - £2,000

1990

• Robert McLiam Wilson per Ripley Bogle - £16,000
• Elizabeth Chadwick per The Wild Hunt - £3,000
• Rosemary Cohen per No Strange Land - £3,000
• Nicholas Shakespeare per The Vision of Elena Silves - £3,000

1991

• Amit Chaudhuri per A Strange and Sublime Address - £10,000
• Mark Swallow per Teaching Little Fang - £7,000
• Suzannah Dunn per Quite Contrary - £2,000
• Lesley Glaister per Honour Thy Father - £2,000
• Simon Mason per The Great English Nude - £2,000
• Nino Ricci per Vite dei santi (Lives of the Saints) - £2,000

1992

• Peter M. Rosenburg per Kissing Through a Pane of Glass - £5,000
• Tibor Fischer per Sotto il culo della rana (Under the Frog) - £3,000
• Liane Jones per The Dream Stone - £3,000
• Eugene Mullan per The Last of His Line - £3,000
• Edward St Aubyn per Never Mind - £3,000

1993

• Mark Blackaby per You'll Never be Here Again - £10,000
• Andrew Cowan per Pig - £7,000
• Simon Corrigan per Tommy Was Here - £5,000
• Joanna Briscoe per Mothers and Other Lovers - £2,000
• Olivia Fane per Landing on Clouds - £2,000

1994

• Colin Bateman per Divorcing Jack - £12,000
• Nadeem Aslam per Season of the Rainbirds - £10,000
• Guy Burt per After the Hole - £1,000
• Frances Liardet per The Game - £1,000
• Jonathan Rix per Some Hope - £1,000

1995

• Robert Newman per Dependence Day - £10,000
• Mark Behr per The Smell of Apples - £8,000
• Martina Evans per Midnight Feast - £3,000
• Rohit Manchanda per A Speck of Coaldust - £1,000
• Juliet Thomas per Hallelujah Jordan - £1,000
• Philippa Walshe per The Latecomer - £1,000
• Madeleine Wickham per A che gioco giochiamo? (The Tennis Party) - £1,000

1996

• John Lanchester per Gola (The Debt to Pleasure) - £8,000
• Meera Syal per Anita and Me - £7,000
• Rhidian Brook per The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - £5,000
• Louis Caron Buss per The Luxury of Exile - £5,000

1997

• Alex Garland per L'ultima spiaggia (The Beach) - £12,000
• Josie Barnard per Poker Face - £5,000
• Ardashir Vakil per Beach Boy - £5,000
• Diran Adebayo per Some Kind of Black - £1,500
• Sanjida O'Connell per Theory of Mind - £1,500

1998

• Kiran Desai per La mia nuova vita sugli alberi (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) - £10,000
• Nick Earls per Zig Zag Street - £8,000
• Phil Whitaker per Eclipse of the Sun - £5,000
• Gail Anderson-Dargatz per The Cure for Death by Lightning - £1,000
• Tobias Hill per Underground - £1,000

1999

• Elliot Perlman per Tre dollari (Three Dollars) - £7,000
• Catherine Chidgey per In a Fishbone Church - £6,000
• Giles Foden per The Last King of Scotland - £4,000
• Dennis Bock per Olympia - £3,000
• Rajeev Balasubramanyam per In Beautiful Disguises - £2,500
• Sarah Waters per Carezze di velluto (Tipping the velvet) - £1,000

2000

• Jonathan Tulloch per The Season Ticket - £10,000
• Julia Leigh per La caccia (The Hunter) - £7,000
• Susan Elderkin per Tramonto sulle chocolate mountains (Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains) - £4,000
• Galaxy Craze per By The Shore - £2,000
• Nicholas Griffin per The Requiem Shark - £2,000

2001

• Zadie Smith per Denti bianchi (White Teeth) - £8,000
• Justin Hill per The Drink and Dream Teahouse - £5,000
• Maggie O'Farrell per Dopo di te (After You'd Gone) - £5,000
• Vivien Kelly per Take One Young Man - £4,000
• Mohsin Hamid per Nero Pakistan (Moth Smoke) - £2,500
• Patrick Neate per Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko - £2,500

2002

• Hari Kunzru per L'imitatore^[7] (The Impressionist) - £8,000
• Rachel Seiffert per The Dark Room - £5,000
• Shamim Sarif per The World Unseen - £4,000
• Helen Cross per La mia estate d'amore (My Summer of Love) - £2,000
• Chloe Hooper per A Child's Book of True Crime - £2,000
• Susanna Jones per Dove la terra trema (The Earthquake Bird) - £2,000
• Gwendoline Riley per Carmel (Cold Water) - £2,000

2003

• Jon McGregor per Se nessuno parla di cose meravigliose (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things) - £10,000
• Sarah Hall per Haweswater - £6,000
• Stephanie Merritt per Gaveston - £4,000
• Elizabeth Garner per Nightdancing - £2,000
• Zoë Strachan per Negative Space - £2,000
• Adam Thirlwell per Politics - £1,000

2004

• Louise Dean per Becoming Strangers - £8,000
• Hannah MacDonald per The Sun Road - £6,000
• Anthony Cartwright per The Afterglow - £3,000
• Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi per The Last Song of Dusk - £3,000

2005

• Susan Fletcher per Eve Green - £16,000
• Diana Evans per 26A (26a) - £2,000
• Helen Walsh per Senza pudore (Brass) - £2,000

2006

• Nick Laird per La banda delle casse da morto^[8] (Utterly Monkey) - £10,000
• Peter Hobbs per The Short Day Dying - £5,000
• Nicola Monaghan per The Killing Jar - £5,000

2007

• Will Davis per My Side of the Story - £10,000
• Adam Foulds per The Truth About These Strange Times - £2,500
• Cynan Jones per La lunga siccità (The Long Dry) - £2,500
• Julie Maxwell per You Can Live Forever - £2,500
• Karen Mcleod per In Search of the Missing Eyelash - £2,500

2008

• David Szalay per London and the South-East - £10,000
• Ross Raisin per La rabbia giovane (God's Own Country) - £6,000
• Thomas Leveritt per The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money for £2,000
• Anna Ralph per The Floating Island - £2,000

2009

• Samantha Harvey per The Wilderness - £12,000 (Prize)
• Eleanor Catton per La prova (The Rehearsal) - £8,000

2010

• Nadifa Mohamed per Mamba Boy (Black Mamba Boy) - £10,000 (Prize)
• Evie Wyld per After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - £7,000
• Jenn Ashworth per Un certo tipo di intimità (A Kind of Intimacy) - £1,500
• Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani per I Do Not Come to You by Chance - £1,500

2011

• Anjali Joseph per Lo scrivano di Bombay (Saraswati Park) - £10,000 (Prize)
• Laura Barton per Twenty-One Locks - £6,000
• Simon Lelic per Rupture - £2,500
• Robert Williams per Luke and Jon - £2,500

2012

• David Whitehouse per Bed - £8,000 (Prize)
• Kalinda Ashton per The Danger Game - £3,000
• Elizabeth Day per Scissors, Paper, Stone - £3,000
• Annabel Pitcher per My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece for £3,000
• Emma Jane Unsworth per Hungry the Stars and Everything - £3,000

2013

• Grace McCleen per Il posto dei miracoli (The Land of Decoration) - £8,000 (Prize)
• Chibundu Onuzo per The Spider King's Daughter - £7,000
• Francesca Segal per La cugina americana (The Innocents) - £2,500
• Will Wiles per Care of Wooden Floors - £2,500

2014

• Nathan Filer per Chiedi alla luna (The Shock Of The Fall) - £10,000 (Prize)
• NoViolet Bulawayo per C'è bisogno di nuovi nomi (We Need New Names) - £3,750
• Sam Byers per Idiopathy - £3,750
• Mave Fellowes per Chaplin and Company - £3,750
• Matt Greene per Ostrich - £3,750

2015

• Ben Fergusson per The Spring of Kasper Meier - £10,000 (Prize)
• Emma Healey per Elizabeth è scomparsa (Elizabeth is Missing) - £5,000
• Zoe Pilger per Eat My Heart Out - £5,000
• Simon Wroe per Chop Chop - £5,000

2016

• Alex Christofi per Glass - £10,000 (Prize)
• Irenosen Okojie per Butterfly Fish - £5,000
• Natasha Pulley per L'orologiaio di Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street) - £5,000
• Lucy Wood per Wood for Weathering - £5,000

2017

• Daniel Shand per Fallow - £10,000 (Prize)
• Rowan Hisayo Buchanan per Harmless Like You - £3,000
• Elnathan John per Born on a Tuesday - £3,000
• Kathleen Jowitt per Speak Its Name - £3,000
• Rob McCarthy per The Hollow Men - £3,000
• Barney Norris per Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain - £3,000

2018

• Omar Robert Hamilton per The City Always Wins - £10,000 (Prize)
• Sarah Day per Mussolini's Island - £3,250
• Clare Fisher per All the Good Things - £3,250
• Eli Goldstone per Strange Heart Beating - £3,250
• Lloyd Markham per Bad Ideas/Chemicals - £3,250
• Masande Ntshanga per The Reactive - £3,250

2019

• James Clarke per The Litten Path - £10,000 (Prize)
• Samuel Fisher per The Chameleon - £2,700
• Imogen Hermes Gowar per The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - £2,700
• Ruqaya Izzidien per The Watermelon Boys - £2,700
• Daisy Lafarge per Paul - £2,700
• Rebecca Ley per Sweet Fruit, Sour Land - £2,700
• Sophie Mackintosh per The Water Cure - £2,700

2020

• Kathryn Hind per Hitch - £10,000 (Prize)^[9]
• Stacey Halls per The Familiars - £5,400
• Isabella Hammad per Il parigino (The Parisian) - £5,400
• Okeychukwu Nzelu per The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney - £5,400

2021

• Thomas McMullan per The Last Good Man (Prize)^[10]
• Graeme Armstrong per The Young Team
• Maame Blue per Bad Love
• Nneoma Ike-Njoku per The Water House
• Kiran Millwood Hargrave per The Mercies
• Eley Williams per Il dizionario del bugiardo (The Liar’s Dictionary)

2022

• Will McPhail per In: The Graphic Novel - £10,000 (Prize)^[11]
• Megan Nolan per Atti di sottomissione (Acts of desperation) - £4,050
• Natasha Brown per Asembly - £4,050
• Caleb Azumah Nelson per Mare aperto (Open Water) - £4,050
• A. K. Blakemore per The Manningtree Witches - £4,050

2023

• Daniel Wiles per Mercia’s Take - £10,000 (Prize)^[12]
• Paddy Crewe per My Name is Yip - £4,050
• Imogen Crimp per A Very Nice Girl - £4,050
• Maddie Mortimer per Mappe dei nostri corpi spettacolari (Maps of our Spectacular Bodies) - £4,050

2024

• Tom Crewe per The New Life - £10,000 (Prize)^[13]
• Stephen Buoro per I cinque misteri dolorosi di Andy Africa (The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa) - £4,050
• Rachel Connolly per Lazy City - £4,050
• Rachel Dawson per Neon Roses - £4,050
• C.E. McGill Our Hideous Progeny - £4,050
• Nathan Munday per Whaling - £4,050

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