Betty Trask Award and Prize

2024

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The New Life by Tom Crewe

Betty Trask Award
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
Lazy City by Rachel Connolly
Neon Roses by Rachel Dawson
Our Hideous Progeny by CE Mcgill
Whaling by Nathan Munday

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2023

Betty Trask Prize
Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles

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My Name Is Yip by Paddy Crewe
A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

2022

Betty Trask Prize
IN: The Graphic Novel by Will McPhail

Betty Trask Award
The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemore
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan

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

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Hitch by Kathryn Hind

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

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

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