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Betty Trask Prize & Award

2021
Betty Trask Prize
The Last Good Man by Thomas McMullan

Betty Trask Award
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
Bad Love by Maame Blue
The Water House by Nneoma Ike-Njoku
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
2020
Betty Trask Prize
Hitch by Kathryn Hind
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Betty Trask Award
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney by Okechukwu Nzelu​
2019
Betty Trask Prize
The Litten Path by James Clarke

Betty Trask Award
The Chameleon by Samuel Fisher
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Watermelon Boys by Ruqaya Izzidien
Paul by Daisy Lafarge
Sweet Fruit, Sour Land by Rebecca Ley
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
2018
Betty Trask Prize
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton

​Betty Trask Award
Mussolini’s Island by Sarah Day
All The Good Things by Clare Fisher
Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone
Bad Ideas/Chemicals by Lloyd Markham
The Reactive by Masanda Ntshanga​
2017
Betty Trask Prize
Fallow by Daniel Shand
 
Betty Trask Award
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
Speak its Name by Kathleen Jowitt
The Hollow Men by Rob McCarthy
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
2016
Betty Trask Prize
Glass by Alex Christofi
 
Betty Trask Award
Butterfly Fish by Irenosen Okojie
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Weathering by Lucy Wood
2015
Betty Trask Prize
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
 
Betty Trask Award
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Eat My Heart Out by Zoe Pilger
Chop Chop by Simon Wroe
2014
Betty Trask Prize
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
 
Betty Trask Award
We Need New Names by Noviolet Bulawayo
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
Chaplin and Company by Mave Fellowes
Ostrich by Matt Greene
2013
Betty Trask Prize
The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen
 
Betty Trask Award
The Spider King's Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
Care of Wooden Floors by Will Wiles
2012
Betty Trask Prize
Bed by David Whitehouse
 
Betty Trask Award
The Danger Game by Kalinda Ashton
Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
Hungry the Stars and Everything by Emma Jane Unsworth
2011
Betty Trask Prize
Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph
 
Betty Trask Award
Twenty-One Locks by Laura Barton
Rupture by Simon Lelic
Luke and Jon by Robert Williams
2010
Betty Trask Prize
Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
 
 Betty Trask Award
A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth
I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
2009
Betty Trask Prize
The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
 
Betty Trask Award
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton

Betty Trask Award

2008
The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money by Thomas Leveritt
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin
The Floating Island by Anna Ralph
London and the South-East by David Szalay
2007
My Side of the Story by Will Davis
The Truth About These Strange Times by Adam Foulds
The Long Dry by Cynan Jones
You Can Live Forever by Julie Maxwell
In Search of the Missing Eyelash by Karen Mcleod
2006
The Short Day Dying by Peter Hobbs
Utterly Monkey by Nick Laird
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan
2005
26a by Diana Evans
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Brass by Helen Walsh
2004
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
The Sun Road by Hannah MacDonald
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
2003
Nightdancing by Elizabeth Garner
Haweswater by Sarah Hall
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Gaveston by Stephanie Merritt
Negative Space by Zoe Strachan
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
2002
My Summer of Love by Helen Cross
A Child’s Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Cold Water by Gwendoline Riley
The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif
The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert
2001
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill
Take One Young Man by Vivien Kelly
Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko by Patrick Neate
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2000
By The Shore by Galaxy Craze
Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains by Susan Elderkin
The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
The Season Ticket by Jonathan Tulloch
1999
In Beautiful Disguises by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Olympia by Dennis Bock
In a Fishbone Church by Catherine Chidgey
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
1998
The Cure for Death by Lighting by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Zigzag Street by Nick Earls
Underground by Tobias Hill
Eclipse of the Sun by Phil Whitaker
1997
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
Poker Face by Josie Barnard
The Beach by Alex Garland
Theory of Mind by Sanjida O'Connell
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
1996
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook
The Luxury of Exile by Louis Caron Buss
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
Anita and Me by Meera Syal
1996
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook
The Luxury of Exile by Louis Caron Buss
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
Anita and Me by Meera Syal
1995
The Smell of Apples by Mark Behr
Midnight Feast by Martina Evans
A Speck of Coaldust by Rohit Manchanda
Dependence Day by Robert Newman
Hallelujah Jordan by Juliet Thomas
The Latecomer by Philippa Walshe
The Tennis Party by Madeleine Wickham
1994
Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam
Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman
After the Hole by Guy Burt
The Game by Frances Liardet
Some Hope by Jonathan Rix
1993
You’ll Never be Here Again by Mark Blackaby
Mothers and Other Lovers by Joanna Briscoe
Tommy Was Here by Simon Corrigan
Pig by Andrew Cowan
Landing on Clouds by Olivia Fane
1992
Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
The Dream Stone by Liane Jones
The Last of His Line by Eugene Mullan
Kissing Through a Pane of Glass by Peter M Rosenberg
Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
1991
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
Quite Contrary by Suzannah Dunn
Honour Thy Father by Lesley Glaister
The Great English Nude by Simon Mason
Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
Teaching Little Fang by Mark Swallow
1990
The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
No Strange Land by Rosemary Cohen
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
The Vision of Elena Silves by Nicholas Shakespeare
1989
Harry’s Last Wedding by Paul Houghton
Uncle Henry’s Last Stand by Alasdair McKee
Watercolour Sky by William Riviere
The Life Game by Nigel Watts
1988
Behind the Waterfall by Georgina Andrewes
Left of North by James Friel
The General Interruptor MS by Alex Martin
A Case of Knives by Candia McWilliam
Burning Your Own by Glenn Patterson
Small Tales of a Town by Susan Webster
1987
Lost Time by Catherine Arnold
The Levels by Peter Benson
Gestures by HS Bhabra
Return Journey by Helen Flint
Hard Luck by James Maw
The Pink Stallion by Lucy Pinney
1986
Mzungu’s Wife by Philippa Blake
Family, Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson
Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale
The Road to Dilmun by JG McLaughlin
Tongues of Flames by Tim Parks
The Prodigal Father by Kate Saunders
1985
A Season of Peace by Gary Armitage
A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside
Legacy by Susan Kay
Instead of Eden by Alice Mitchell
The Earth Abides For Ever by George Schweiz
The Standing Hills by Caroline Stickland
1984
A Parish of Rich Women by James Buchan
Winter Journey by Ronald Frame
Playing Fields in Winter by Helen Harris
The Disinherited by Gareth Jones
Cold Showers by Clare Nonhebel
The Devil's Looking Glass by Simon Rees