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 nation. Each...
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Betty Trask Award winner for 26a Susan Fletcher (MA, 2002) 2005 Betty Trask Prize winner for Eve Green Adam Foulds (MA, 2000) 2007 Betty Trask Award winner...
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Megan Nolan (section Awards)
the Dylan Thomas Prize and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels. Nolan's father Jim Nolan was a theatre director...
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Natasha Brown (author) (section Awards)
a Betty Trask Award, was Foyles Book of the Year (for Fiction), and was shortlisted for several other American, British, and English-language awards. Brown...
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Natasha Pulley (section Awards)
for her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which won a Betty Trask Award. Pulley has also been an associate lecturer in creative writing at...
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White Teeth (category Costa Book Award–winning works)
Whitbread Book Award in category best first novel, the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and the Betty Trask Award. Time magazine...
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The Familiars (2019) became a Sunday Times bestseller and earned a Betty Trask Award. This was followed by further bestsellers The Foundling (2020), Mrs...
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Maggie O'Farrell (category Costa Book Award winners)
After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted...
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Caleb Azumah Nelson (section Awards)
February 2021 by Viking Press. It won the Costa Book Award for First Novel, a Betty Trask Award (for a first novel by a writer under 35) from the Society...
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Margaret Elizabeth Lisle Trask (2 January 1893 – 25 January 1983) was an English writer of romance novels. Betty Trask was born at 3 Park Lane in Bath...
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Graeme Armstrong (author) (section Awards and honours)
The Young Team. The novel won the 2021 Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award, and was Scots Language Awards 'Scots Book of the Year' in the same...
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Giles Foden (section Awards and prizes)
Uganda in the 1970s. It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. The feature...
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of British writer Tibor Fischer. The book was a winner of the 1992 Betty Trask Award and was the first debut novel to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize...
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English writer, actress and journalist. She won the Betty Trask Award and the Costa Children's Book Award and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal...
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Zoe Pilger (section Awards and nominations)
art critic. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out, won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. The daughter of journalists John Pilger and Yvonne...
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Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. Day's first novel, Scissors Paper Stone, was published in 2012 and won the Betty Trask Award for debut...
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published her debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, winning a Betty Trask Award in 2019; it became shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction....
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by Headline Review, it garnered 'international acclaim' and won a Betty Trask Award. O'Farrell started writing the story which was to become After You'd...
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novels since his debut, Divorcing Jack, in 1994. Divorcing Jack won a Betty Trask Award in the same year and was adapted into a 1998 film starring David Thewlis...
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novels include Brass, which won a Betty Trask Award, and Once Upon a Time in England, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. Walsh was born in Warrington, Cheshire...
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Review, and The New Yorker. Jones's writing has received awards including the Betty Trask Award (2007) and the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize (2015)...
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Chibundu Onuzo (section Awards and recognition)
Nigerian novelist. Her first novel, The Spider King's Daughter, won a Betty Trask Award, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book...
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Irenosen Okojie (section Honours and awards)
her West African heritage. Her first novel, Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask Award in 2016, and her story "Grace Jones" won the 2020 Caine Prize for...
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Francesca Segal (section Awards)
January 2020. "Francesca Segal's THE INNOCENTS wins a Betty Trask Award at The Authors' Awards 2013". ROGERS, COLERIDGE & WHITE. 14 June 2013. Archived...
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novel, first published in 2003. Kunzru received the Betty Trask Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for the book's publication.[citation needed] The novel...
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Diana Evans (category British Book Award winners)
published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers, the Betty Trask Award and the deciBel Writer of the Year award. Her third novel Ordinary People...
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won a range of awards including the 2007 Adam Award in Creative Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the 2009 Betty Trask Award, and 2009 New Zealand...
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Prize and a Betty Trask Award. and was also shortlisted for both the Orange Award for New Writers and International Dublin Literary Award. The story is...
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Joanna Briscoe (section Awards and nominations)
freelance journalist. Her first novel, Mothers and Other Lovers, won a Betty Trask Award in 1993, and her third, Sleep with Me (2005), was adapted for television...
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Sarah Waters (category British Book Award winners)
the novel as a "very upbeat [...] kind of a romp". It won a 1999 Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys...
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