Betty Trask Award
# Betty Trask Award

Il Betty Trask Award è un premio letterario britannico assegnato annualmente dal sindacato di scrittori denominato Society of Authors.

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

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.

## Albo d'oro

### Anni 1980-1989

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

### Anni 1990-1999

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

### Anni 2000-2009

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 (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 (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 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

### Anni 2010-2019

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

### Anni 2020-2029

2020

* Kathryn Hind per Hitch - £10,000 (Prize)
* Stacey Halls per The Familiars - £5,400
* Isabella Hammad per The Parisian - £5,400
* Okeychukwu Nzelu per The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney - £5,400

2021

* Thomas McMullan per The Last Good Man (Prize)
* 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)
* 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)
* Paddy Crewe per My Name is Yip - £4,050
* Imogen Crimp per A Very Nice Girl - £4,050
* Maddie Mortimer per Maps of our Spectacular Bodies - £4,050
