The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth

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 nation. The awards were established in 1984 by the Society of Authors

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, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels. Each year the awards total £

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20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize, and the remainder given to one or more other writers. The awards are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.

List of prize winners

Note: This list is not complete for each year.

Year	Author	Book	Award
1984	Ronald Frame Ronald Frame Ronald Frame is a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and dramatist. He was educated in Glasgow, and at Oxford University.Unwritten Secrets, a novel and his fifteenth book of fiction, was published in 2010....	Winter Journey	£6,750
	Clare Nonhebel	Cold Showers	£6,750
	James Buchan James Buchan James Buchan, born 11 June 1954, is a British novelist and journalist.-Biography:Buchan is the son of William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and began his career as a Financial...	A Parish of Rich Women	£1,000
	Helen Harris	Playing Fields in Winter	£1,000
	Gareth Jones Gareth Jones Gareth Jones may refer to:* Gareth Stedman Jones , British historian* Gareth Jones * Gareth Jones * Gareth Jones * Gareth Jones...	The Disinherited	£1,000
	Simon Rees	The Devil's Looking Glass	£1,000
1985	Susan Kay Susan Kay Susan Kay is a writer.She is most known for her book, Phantom, which expands upon the history of Erik, the hideous, brilliant character from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, in an episodic format of seven chapters from different characters' points of view - first Erik's mother,...	Legacy	£12,500
	Gary Armitage	A Season of Peace	£1,000
	Elizabeth Ironside	A Very Private Enterprise	£1,000
	Alice Mitchell	Instead of Eden	£1,000
	Caroline Stickland	Standing Hills	£1,000
	George Schweiz	The Earth Abides For Ever	£1,000
1986	Tim Parks Tim Parks Tim Parks is a British novelist, translator and author.-Life:Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the son of a clergyman. He grew up in Finchley , London and was educated at Cambridge University and Harvard. He has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981...	Tongues of Flame	£9,000
	Patricia Ferguson	Family, Myths and Legends	£4,500
	Philippa Blake	Mzungu's Wife	£1,000
	Matthew Kneale Matthew Kneale Matthew Kneale is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He went to school at Latymer Upper School and then studied Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, and afterwards...	Whore Banquets	£1,000
	J. F. McLaughlin	The Road to Dilmun	£1,000
	Kate Saunders Kate Saunders Kate Saunders is an English author, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty , Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and...	The Prodigal Father	£1,000
1987	James Maw	Hard Luck	£8,000
	Peter Benson Peter Benson (author) Peter Benson was born in 1956 in Kent, UK and is the award-winning author of eight novels. His work has been described as ‘a far-reaching exploration into unlikely relationships’ and is characterised by the precision of its language, characterisations and approach.-Bibliography:Novels* 1987, The...	The Levels	£4,500
	Helen Flint	Return Journey	£4,500
	Catherine Arnold	Lost Time	£1,000
	H. S. Bhabra H. S. Bhabra Hargurchet Singh Bhabra was a British Asian writer and broadcaster who settled in Canada.Bhabra was born in Mumbai, India and moved to England with his family in 1957. The family eventually settled in Beare Green, Surrey. From 1966 to 1973, Bhabra attended Reigate Grammar School...	Gestures	£1,000
	Lucy Pinney	The Pink Stallion	£1,000
1988	Alex Martin Alex Martin Alexandrea "Alex" Martin is an American actress and producer. She was awarded the title of Miss Golden Globe at the 1994 Golden Globe Awards.She is the daughter of actress Whoopi Goldberg and Alvin Martin.-Filmography:...	The General Interruptor MS	£6,500
	Candia McWilliam Candia McWilliam Candia McWilliam is a Scottish author. Her father was the architectural writer and academic Colin McWilliam.Born in Edinburgh, McWilliam was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she obtained first class honours. Her first novel, A Case of Knives, published in 1988, was the winner of a...	A Case of Knives	£6,500
	Georgina Andrewes	Behind the Waterfall	£2,000
	James Friel	Left of North	£2,000
	Glenn Patterson Glenn Patterson Glenn Patterson, born in Belfast in 1961, is a novelist.He attended Methodist College Belfast. He graduated from the University of East Anglia where he studied Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury...	Burning Your Own	£2,00
	Susan Webster	Small Tales of a Town	£2,00
1989	Nigel Watts	The Life Game	£10,000
	William Riviere	Watercolour Sky	£5,000
	Paul Houghton	Harry's Last Wedding	£2,000
	Alasdair McKee	Uncle Henry's Last Stand	£2,000
1990	Robert McLiam Wilson Robert McLiam Wilson Robert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist. He attended St Malachy's College and studied at University of Cambridge; however, he dropped out and, for a short time, was homeless. This period of his life profoundly affected his later life and influenced his works...	Ripley Bogle	£16,000
	Elizabeth Chadwick Elizabeth Chadwick Elizabeth Chadwick is an author of historical fictions. She is a member of Regia Anglorum, a Medieval reenactment organisation.-Biography:Elizabeth Chadwick was born in Bury, Lancashire. She moved with her family to Scotland when she was four years old and spent her childhood in the village of...	The Wild Hunt	£3,000
	Rosemary Cohen	No Strange Land	£3,000
	Nicholas Shakespeare Nicholas Shakespeare Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America. He was educated at the Dragon School preparatory school then Winchester College and Cambridge and worked as a journalist for BBC television and...	The Vision of Elena Silves	£3,000
1991	Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...	A Strange and Sublime Address	£10,000
	Mark Swallow	Teaching Little Fang	£7,000
	Suzannah Dunn Suzannah Dunn Suzannah Dunn is an author and graduate of the MA creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia. She teaches MA creative writing at the University of Manchester, and is the author of ten novels...	Quite Contrary	£2,000
	Lesley Glaister Lesley Glaister Lesley Glaister is a British novelist and playwright. She has written 12 novels, Chosen being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of St Andrews, and is a regular contributor of book reviews to the Spectator...	Honour Thy Father	£2,000
	Nino Ricci Nino Ricci Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....	Lives of the Saints Lives of the Saints Lives of the Saints is a novel by Nino Ricci. The author's first book, it forms the first part of a trilogy. The other two novels are In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone...	£2,000
	Simon Mason Simon Mason (author) -Biography:Simon Mason was born in Sheffield in 1962. He was educated at local schools and studied English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He splits his time between writing at home and a part-time editorial position with David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House and publisher of his 2011...	The Great English Nude	£2,000
1992	Liane Jones	The Dream Stone	£3,000
	Peter M. Rosenburg	Kissing Through a Pane of Glass	£5,000
	Tibor Fischer Tibor Fischer Tibor Fischer is a British novelist and short story writer. In 1993 he was selected by the influential literary magazine Granta as one of the 20 best young British writers....	Under the Frog Under the Frog Under the Frog is British-born Hungarian writer Tibor Fischer's debut novel, it was published in 1992. The book won the Betty Trask Award in 1993 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....	£3,000
	Eugene Mullan	The Last of His Line	£3,000
	Edward St Aubyn Edward St Aubyn Edward St Aubyn is a British author and journalist.-Early life:He attended Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford.-Work:...	Never Mind	£3,000
1993	Mark Blackaby	You’ll Never be Here Again	£10,000
	Andrew Cowan Andrew Cowan Andrew Cowan is a Scottish former rally driver, and the founder and senior director of Mitsubishi Ralliart until his retirement on 30 November 2005.-Early years:...	Pig	£7,000
	Simon Corrigan	Tommy Was Here	£5,000
	Joanna Briscoe Joanna Briscoe -Early life:Joanna Briscoe was born in London in 1963. Much of her childhood was spent in the southwest of England. At the age of 10 years she moved with her family from Somerset to Jordan Manor, an isolated six-bedroomed thatched Devon long house set within of land in a valley in Dartmoor...	Mothers and Other Lovers	£2,000
	Olivia Fane	Landing on Clouds	£2,000
1994	Colin Bateman Colin Bateman Colin Bateman is a novelist, screenwriter and former journalist from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.Born in 1962, Bateman attended Bangor Grammar School leaving at 16 to join the County Down Spectator as a "cub" reporter, then columnist and deputy editor...	Divorcing Jack Divorcing Jack (novel) Divorcing Jack is a 1995 novel by Colin Bateman.Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the novel's events follow a turbulent period in the life of married, cynical and usually drunk journalist Dan Starkey. Dan's wife Patricia leaves him after a drunken party in which he kisses student Margaret...	£12,000
	Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam Nadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...	Season of the Rainbirds	£10,000
	Guy Burt Guy Burt Guy Burt is an English author, best known for his 1993 debut novel, After the Hole, a psychological horror story about a group of private school students trapped in an underground bunker, seemingly locked in by a deranged, sociopathic classmate...	After the Hole After the Hole After the Hole is a psychological horror novel by Guy Burt, which was the basis for the 2001 film The Hole. It won a Betty Trask Award in 1994.-Plot summary:...	£1,000
	Frances Liardet Frances Liardet Frances Liardet is a writer and translator of Arabic literature. She has translated several book-length works, including two books by the modernist Egyptian writer Edwar al-Kharrat and one by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz....	The Game	£1,000
	Jonathan Rix	Some Hope	£1,000
1995	Robert Newman Robert Newman Robert Newman is a British stand-up comedian, author and political activist. In 1993 Newman and his then comedy partner David Baddiel became the first comedians to play and sell out the 12,000-seat Wembley Arena in London...	Dependence Day	£10,000
	Mark Behr Mark Behr Mark Behr is a Tanzanian writer in South Africa. He is currently professor of Creative Writing at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. He has been professor of World Literature and Fiction Writing at the College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico...	The Smell of Apples The Smell of Apples The Smell of Apples is a 1995 debut novel by South African Mark Behr, also published in the same year in Afrikaans as Die Reuk van Appels....	£8,000
	Martina Evans	Midnight Feast	£3,000
	Rohit Manchanda	A Speck of Coaldust	£1,000
	Juliet Thomas	Hallelujah Jordan	£1,000
	Philippa Walshe	The Latecomer	£1,000
	Madeleine Wickham Madeleine Wickham Madeleine Wickham is an English author of chick lit who is most known for her work under the pen name Sophie Kinsella.-Career:...	The Tennis Party	£1,000
1996	John Lanchester John Lanchester John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford.-Works:...	The Debt to Pleasure	£8,000
	Meera Syal Meera Syal Meera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...	Anita and Me Anita and Me Anita and Me is Meera Syal's debut novel, and was first published in 1996. It is a semi-autobiographical novel which won the Betty Trask Award....	£7,000
	Rhidian Brook Rhidian Brook Rhidian Brook is a novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster.He has written two novels. His first - The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - won the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Author's Club First Novel Award as well being runner up for Welsh Book of The Year...	The Testimony of Taliesin Jones	£5,000
	Louis Caron Buss	The Luxury of Exile	£5,000
1997	Alex Garland Alex Garland Alexander Medawar "Alex" Garland is a British novelist and screenwriter.-Early life:Garland was born in London, England, the son of psychoanalyst Caroline and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland. His maternal grandparents were zoologist Peter Medawar and author Jean Medawar...	The Beach The Beach (novel) The Beach is a novel by Alex Garland about backpackers in Thailand. Influenced by such literary works as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies, it describes the adventures of a young Englishman in search of and on a legendary, idyllic beach untouched by tourism.-Plot summary:In a cheap hostel on...	£12,000
	Josie Barnard	Poker Face	£5,000
	Ardashir Vakil Ardashir Vakil Ardashir Vakil is an author whose first novel, Beach Boy, won a Betty Trask Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award. His second novel, One Day was shortlisted for the Encore Award....	Beach Boy Beach Boy Beach Boy is the debut novel of Indian novelist Ardashir Vakil. A coming-of-age story set in 1970s Bombay, the novel won the Betty Trask Award....	£5,000
	Diran Adebayo Diran Adebayo Diran Adebayo is a British novelist, cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.-Education and career:...	Some Kind of Black	£1,500
	Sanjida O'Connell	Theory of Mind	£1,500
1998	Kiran Desai Kiran Desai Kiran Desai is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award...	Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is a novel by Kiran Desai published in 1998. It is her first book and won the top prize for the Betty Trask Awards in 1998. It is set in the Indian village of Shahkot and follows the exploits of a young man, Sampath Chawala, trying to avoid the responsibilities of...	£10,000
	Nick Earls Nick Earls Nick Earls is an award-winning novelist from Brisbane, Australia. He writes humorous popular fiction about everyday life, and is often compared to Nick Hornby...	Zigzag Street	£8,000
	Phil Whitaker	Eclipse of the Sun	£5,000
	Gail Anderson-Dargatz Gail Anderson-Dargatz Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz is a Canadian novelist.Anderson-Dargatz was born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia and studied creative writing at the University of Victoria...	The Cure for Death by Lighting	£1,000
	Tobias Hill Tobias Hill Tobias Hill is an award-winning British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.-Life:Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and,...	Underground	£1,000
1999	Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...	Three Dollars Three Dollars Three Dollars is a 2005 Australian film, directed by Robert Connolly and based on a novel of the same name by Elliot Perlman. It won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Adapted Screenplay....	£7,000
	Catherine Chidgey Catherine Chidgey Catherine Chidgey was born in New Zealand in 1970 and grew up in the Hutt Valley. She has degrees in creative writing, psychology, and German literature....	In a Fishbone Church	£6,000
	Giles Foden Giles Foden Giles Foden is an English author best known for his award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland .-Biography:Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was raised...	The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland The Last King of Scotland is an award-winning 1998 novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ. Giles Foden's novel received...	£4,000
	Dennis Bock Dennis Bock Dennis Bock is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His latest novel, The Communist's Daughter, published in 2006 by HarperCollins in Canada and Knopf in the US, and later in France, the Netherlands, Greece and Poland, is a retelling of the final years in the life of the Canadian surgeon...	Olympia	£3,000
	Rajeev Balasubramanyam Rajeev Balasubramanyam Rajeev Balasubramanyam is a novelist, writer and workshop leader.Rajeev was born in Lancashire, England. His first Novel In Beautiful Disguises won a Betty Trask Prize and was longlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award....	In Beautiful Disguises	£2,500
	Sarah Waters Sarah Waters Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966....	Tipping the Velvet Tipping the Velvet Tipping the Velvet is an historical novel written by Sarah Waters published in 1998. Set in Victorian England during the 1890s, it tells a coming of age story about a young woman named Nan who falls in love with a male impersonator, follows her to London, and finds various ways to support herself...	£1,000
2000	Jonathan Tulloch	The Season Ticket	£10,000
	Julia Leigh Julia Leigh Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors...	The Hunter	£7,000
	Susan Elderkin	Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains	£4,000
	Galaxy Craze Galaxy Craze Galaxy Craze is an actress. She moved to the United States with her mother in 1980. She appeared in a few independent films in the 1990s.She is a 1993 graduate of Barnard College....	By The Shore	£2,000
	Nicholas Griffin	The Requiem Shark	£2,000
2001	Zadie Smith Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...	White Teeth White Teeth White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones, and their families in London...	£8,000
	Justin Hill Justin Hill Justin Hill is an English novelist whose novels have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize three times. Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York....	The Drink and Dream Teahouse	£5,000
	Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels – the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives...	After You'd Gone	£5,000
	Vivien Kelly	Take One Young Man	£4,000
	Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist .- Biography :...	Moth Smoke Moth Smoke Moth Smoke is a novel written by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2000. It tells the story of Darashikoh Shezad, a banker in Lahore, Pakistan, who loses his job, falls in love with his best friend's wife, and plunges into a life of drugs and crime...	£2,500
	Patrick Neate Patrick Neate Patrick Neate is an award-winning British novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and podcaster.-Early life:Born and raised as a Roman Catholic in South London, he was educated at St. Paul's School and Cambridge University. He spent a gap year in Zimbabwe and has since returned to Africa on many...	Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko	£2,500
2002	Hari Kunzru	The Impressionist	£8,000
	Rachel Seiffert Rachel Seiffert - Biographical Details :She was born in 1971 in Oxford to German and Australian parents, and was brought up bilingually. She currently lives in London.- Publications and Awards :Seiffert has published three works of fiction to date:The Dark Room...	The Dark Room	£5,000
	Shamim Sarif Shamim Sarif Shamim Sarif is a novelist and filmmaker of South Asian and South African heritage. Her roots inspired her to write her award-winning debut novel, The World Unseen, which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality, which she later adapted into a film starring Lisa Ray, shown at the London Film...	The World Unseen	£4,000
	Helen Cross Helen Cross Helen Cross is an English author. She was raised in East Yorkshire and educated at the University of East Anglia.Cross's first novel, My Summer of Love, was published in 2001 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2002. It was made into an acclaimed film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and...	My Summer of Love	£2,000
	Chloe Hooper Chloe Hooper Chloe Hooper is an Australian author. Her first novel, A Child’s Book of True Crime , was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Literature and was a New York Times Notable Book...	A Child’s Book of True Crime	£2,000
	Susanna Jones	The Earthquake Bird	£2,000
	Gwendoline Riley Gwendoline Riley Gwendoline Riley is an English writer, born in 1979. Born in London, she attended Manchester Metropolitan University.Her first book, Cold Water, was named one of the five outstanding debut novels of 2002 by The Guardian 'Weekend' magazine and also won a Betty Trask Award. Sick Notes followed in...	Cold Water	£2,000
2003	Jon McGregor Jon mcgregor Jon McGregor is a British author who has written three novels; If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, which was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003, and So Many Ways to Begin, which was published in 2006 and also...	If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is author Jon McGregor's first novel, first published by Bloomsbury in 2002. It portrays a day in the life of a suburban British street, with the plot alternately following the lives of the street's various inhabitants...	£10,000
	Sarah Hall Sarah Hall (writer) Sarah Hall is an English novelist, and poet. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The Electric Michelangelo, was nominated for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and achieved considerable international commercial success...	Haweswater	£6,000
	Stephanie Merritt Stephanie Merritt Stephanie Merritt is an English critic and feature writer who has contributed to various publications including The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, New Humanist and Die Welt...	Gaveston	£4,000
	Elizabeth Garner	Nightdancing	£2,000
	Zoe Strachan Zoe Strachan Zoë Strachan is a Scottish novelist, journalist and university tutor.-Biography:Strachan grew up in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. She studied Archeology and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, followed by a MPhil in Creative Writing at the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. She later became a...	Negative Space	£2,000
	Adam Thirlwell Adam Thirlwell Adam Thirlwell is a British novelist. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. He also writes a column for Esquire magazine....	Politics Politics (novel) Politics is a 2003 novel by Adam Thirlwell about a father-daughter relationship and about a ménage à trois which includes said daughter and two of her friends. We are informed by the narrator that the novel is about "goodness".-Plot summary:...	£1,000
2004	Louise Dean Louise Dean (author) Louise Dean is a British novelist, author of four published works Becoming Strangers, This Human Season., The Idea of Love and The Old Romantic....	Becoming Strangers	£8,000
	Hannah MacDonald	The Sun Road	£6,000
	Anthony Cartwright	The Afterglow	£3,000
	Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi	The Last Song of Dusk	£3,000
2005	Susan Fletcher	Eve Green	£16,000
	Diana Evans	26a	£2,000
	Helen Walsh Helen Walsh Helen Walsh is an English writer. To date she has written three novels: Brass , Once Upon a Time in England , and Go to Sleep , all of which have been published by Canongate.-Biography:...	Brass	£2,000
2006	Nick Laird Nick Laird Nicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...	Utterly Monkey	£10,000
	Nicola Monaghan Nicola Monaghan Nicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon.Monaghan was listed in The Independent’s New Year 2006 list of rising talent, and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut...	The Killing Jar	£5,000
	Peter Hobbs Peter Hobbs Peter Hobbs is a British novelist.He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career....	The Short Day Dying	£5,000
2007	Will Davis	My Side of the Story	£10,000
	Adam Foulds Adam Foulds Adam Foulds is a British novelist and poet.-Biography:Foulds was educated at Bancroft's School, read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford under Craig Raine, and graduated with an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2001. Foulds published The Truth About These Strange...	The Truth About These Strange Times	£2,500
	Cynan Jones	The Long Dry	£2,500
	Julie Maxwell	You Can Live Forever	£2,500
	Karen Mcleod	In Search of the Missing Eyelash	£2,500
2008	David Szalay	London and the South-East	£10,000
	Ross Raisin Ross Raisin Ross Raisin is a British novelist. He was born in Keighley in Yorkshire, and after attending Bradford Grammar School he studied English at King's College London, which was followed by a period as a trainee wine bar manager and a postgraduate degree in creative writing at Goldsmith's...	God's Own Country	£6,000
	Thomas Leveritt	The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money	£2,000
	Anna Ralph	The Floating Island	£2,000
2009	Samantha Harvey Samantha Harvey Samantha Harvey is an author. She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course with distinction in 2005, and has also completed postgraduate courses in philosophy...	The Wilderness	£12,000 (Prize)
	Eleanor Catton Eleanor Catton Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand author best known for her 2007 debut novel, The Rehearsal. The book deals with reactions to an affair between a male teacher and Victoria, a girl at his secondary school, as well as the more muted response to the death of another pupil...	The Rehearsal The Rehearsal (novel) The Rehearsal is the debut novel by Eleanor Catton. It was released by Victoria University Press in New Zealand in 2008. The Rehearsal was later bought by Granta Books in the UK and released there in July 2009.-Plot summary:...	£8,000
2010	Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed Nadifa Mohamed is an award-winning Somali-British novelist.-Personal life:Nadifa was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981. In 1986, she moved with her family to London...	Black Mamba Boy	£10,000 (Prize)
	Evie Wyld Evie Wyld Evie Wyld is the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winning novel After the Fire, A Still Small Voice. In 2010 she was listed by The Daily Telegraph as one of the twenty best British authors under the age of 40....	After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice After the Fire, A Still Small Voice is the debut novel by author Evie Wyld published in August 2009 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Pantheon Books in the US. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Betty Trask Award. and was also shortlisted for both the Orange Award for New Writers and...	£7,000
	Jenn Ashworth Jenn Ashworth Jenn Ashworth is an English writer. She was born in 1982 in Preston, Lancashire. She has graduated from Cambridge University and the Manchester Centre for New Writing...	A Kind of Intimacy	£1,500
	Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian novelist.Her novel, I Do Not Come to you by Chance was awarded the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, first novel Africa....	I Do Not Come to You by Chance	£1,500

External links

• The Betty Trask Prizes and Awards: Past Winners