• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Book Award for First Novel, from the Society of Authors a Betty Trask Award (for a first novel by a writer under 35), and the Somerset Maugham Award, and...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • in the mining village of Essington, Staffordshire, which won the Betty Trask Award. The story revolves around Meena, a British Indian girl (the "me"...
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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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    Nadeem Aslam (section Awards)
    Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama...
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  • their deranged classmate. The book received mixed reviews, but won a Betty Trask Award in 1994. The book was loosely adapted into a 2001 film directed by...
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  • Michael Joseph, part of Penguin Group. A year later the book won a Betty Trask Award, which was presented to the author at Whitehall by the Prince of Wales...
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    Eleanor Catton (category Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers)
    won the 2009 Betty Trask Award in the UK, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize and on the shortlist of the Guardian First Book Award. That year Catton...
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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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  • 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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  • the Year Award, a Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and a Scottish Council Book Award, and was...
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  • novels of 2002 by The Guardian "Weekend" magazine and also won a Betty Trask Award. Sick Notes followed in 2004 and Joshua Spassky in 2007. For Cold...
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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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  • the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award and won a 2006 Betty Trask Award. Interview Doodled Books Ltd v t e...
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  • first novel Honour Thy Father (1990) won the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award, Now You See Me was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction...
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