Betty Trask Award

Betty Trask Award
Riconoscimenti destinato ad autori esordienti under 35 residenti nel Commonwealth
Assegnato daSociety of Authors
PaeseBandiera del Regno Unito Regno Unito
Anno inizio1984
Sito webwww.societyofauthors.org/Prizes/Society-of-Authors-Awards/Betty-Trask

Il Betty Trask Award è un premio letterario britannico assegnato annualmente dal sindacato di scrittori denominato Society of Authors[1].

Istituito nel 1983 su lascito della scrittrice di romanzi rosa Betty Trask[2], è destinato ad autori esordienti sotto i 35 anni[3] residenti nel Commonwealth[4].

A partire dal 2009 un vincitore si aggiudica il premio principale (Betty Trask Prize) del valore di £10000 mentre gli altri autori premiati ricevono il Betty Trask Award di 5000 sterline[5].

Albo d'oro[6][modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Anni 1980-1989[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

1984

  • Ronald Frame per Winter Journey - £6,750
  • Clare Nonhebel per Cold Showers - £6,750
  • James Buchan per A Parish of Rich Women - £1,000
  • Helen Harris per Playing Fields in Winter - £1,000
  • Gareth Jones per The Disinherited - £1,000
  • Simon Rees per The Devil's Looking Glass - £1,000

1985

  • Susan Kay per Legacy - £12,500
  • Gary Armitage per A Season of Peace - £1,000
  • Elizabeth Ironside per A Very Private Enterprise - £1,000
  • Alice Mitchell per Instead of Eden - £1,000
  • Caroline Stickland per The Standing Hills - £1,000
  • George Schweiz per The Earth Abides For Ever - £1,000

1986

  • Tim Parks per Lingue di fuoco (Tongues of Flame) - £9,000
  • Patricia Ferguson per Family, Myths and Legends - £4,500
  • Philippa Blake per Mzungu's Wife - £1,000
  • Matthew Kneale per Whore Banquets - £1,000
  • J. F. McLaughlin per The Road to Dilmun - £1,000
  • Kate Saunders per The Prodigal Father - £1,000

1987

  • James Maw per Hard Luck - £8,000
  • Peter Benson per The Levels - £4,500
  • Helen Flint per Return Journey - £4,500
  • Catherine Arnold per Lost Time - £1,000
  • H. S. Bhabra per Gestures - £1,000
  • Lucy Pinney per The Pink Stallion - £1,000

1988

  • Alex Martin per The General Interruptor MS - £6,500
  • Candia McWilliam per A doppio taglio (A Case of Knives) - £6,500
  • Georgina Andrewes per Behind the Waterfall - £2,000
  • James Friel per Left of North - £2,000
  • Glenn Patterson per Burning Your Own - £2,000
  • Susan Webster per Small Tales of a Town - £2,000

1989

  • Nigel Watts per The Life Game - £10,000
  • William Riviere per Watercolour Sky - £5,000
  • Paul Houghton per Harry's Last Wedding - £2,000
  • Alasdair McKee per Uncle Henry's Last Stand - £2,000

Anni 1990-1999[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

1990

  • Robert McLiam Wilson per Ripley Bogle - £16,000
  • Elizabeth Chadwick per The Wild Hunt - £3,000
  • Rosemary Cohen per No Strange Land - £3,000
  • Nicholas Shakespeare per The Vision of Elena Silves - £3,000

1991

  • Amit Chaudhuri per A Strange and Sublime Address - £10,000
  • Mark Swallow per Teaching Little Fang - £7,000
  • Suzannah Dunn per Quite Contrary - £2,000
  • Lesley Glaister per Honour Thy Father - £2,000
  • Simon Mason per The Great English Nude - £2,000
  • Nino Ricci per Vite dei santi (Lives of the Saints) - £2,000

1992

  • Peter M. Rosenburg per Kissing Through a Pane of Glass - £5,000
  • Tibor Fischer per Sotto il culo della rana (Under the Frog) - £3,000
  • Liane Jones per The Dream Stone - £3,000
  • Eugene Mullan per The Last of His Line - £3,000
  • Edward St Aubyn per Never Mind - £3,000

1993

  • Mark Blackaby per You'll Never be Here Again - £10,000
  • Andrew Cowan per Pig - £7,000
  • Simon Corrigan per Tommy Was Here - £5,000
  • Joanna Briscoe per Mothers and Other Lovers - £2,000
  • Olivia Fane per Landing on Clouds - £2,000

1994

  • Colin Bateman per Divorcing Jack - £12,000
  • Nadeem Aslam per Season of the Rainbirds - £10,000
  • Guy Burt per After the Hole - £1,000
  • Frances Liardet per The Game - £1,000
  • Jonathan Rix per Some Hope - £1,000

1995

  • Robert Newman per Dependence Day - £10,000
  • Mark Behr per The Smell of Apples - £8,000
  • Martina Evans per Midnight Feast - £3,000
  • Rohit Manchanda per A Speck of Coaldust - £1,000
  • Juliet Thomas per Hallelujah Jordan - £1,000
  • Philippa Walshe per The Latecomer - £1,000
  • Madeleine Wickham per A che gioco giochiamo? (The Tennis Party) - £1,000

1996

  • John Lanchester per Gola (The Debt to Pleasure) - £8,000
  • Meera Syal per Anita and Me - £7,000
  • Rhidian Brook per The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - £5,000
  • Louis Caron Buss per The Luxury of Exile - £5,000

1997

  • Alex Garland per L'ultima spiaggia (The Beach) - £12,000
  • Josie Barnard per Poker Face - £5,000
  • Ardashir Vakil per Beach Boy - £5,000
  • Diran Adebayo per Some Kind of Black - £1,500
  • Sanjida O'Connell per Theory of Mind - £1,500

1998

  • Kiran Desai per La mia nuova vita sugli alberi (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) - £10,000
  • Nick Earls per Zig Zag Street - £8,000
  • Phil Whitaker per Eclipse of the Sun - £5,000
  • Gail Anderson-Dargatz per The Cure for Death by Lightning - £1,000
  • Tobias Hill per Underground - £1,000

1999

Anni 2000-2009[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

2000

  • Jonathan Tulloch per The Season Ticket - £10,000
  • Julia Leigh per La caccia (The Hunter) - £7,000
  • Susan Elderkin per Tramonto sulle chocolate mountains (Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains) - £4,000
  • Galaxy Craze per By The Shore - £2,000
  • Nicholas Griffin per The Requiem Shark - £2,000

2001

2002

  • Hari Kunzru per L'imitatore[7] (The Impressionist) - £8,000
  • Rachel Seiffert per The Dark Room - £5,000
  • Shamim Sarif per The World Unseen - £4,000
  • Helen Cross per La mia estate d'amore (My Summer of Love) - £2,000
  • Chloe Hooper per A Child's Book of True Crime - £2,000
  • Susanna Jones per Dove la terra trema (The Earthquake Bird) - £2,000
  • Gwendoline Riley per Carmel (Cold Water) - £2,000

2003

  • Jon McGregor per Se nessuno parla di cose meravigliose (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things) - £10,000
  • Sarah Hall per Haweswater - £6,000
  • Stephanie Merritt per Gaveston - £4,000
  • Elizabeth Garner per Nightdancing - £2,000
  • Zoë Strachan per Negative Space - £2,000
  • Adam Thirlwell per Politics - £1,000

2004

  • Louise Dean per Becoming Strangers - £8,000
  • Hannah MacDonald per The Sun Road - £6,000
  • Anthony Cartwright per The Afterglow - £3,000
  • Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi per The Last Song of Dusk - £3,000

2005

2006

  • Nick Laird per La banda delle casse da morto[8] (Utterly Monkey) - £10,000
  • Peter Hobbs per The Short Day Dying - £5,000
  • Nicola Monaghan per The Killing Jar - £5,000

2007

  • Will Davis per My Side of the Story - £10,000
  • Adam Foulds per The Truth About These Strange Times - £2,500
  • Cynan Jones per La lunga siccità (The Long Dry) - £2,500
  • Julie Maxwell per You Can Live Forever - £2,500
  • Karen Mcleod per In Search of the Missing Eyelash - £2,500

2008

  • David Szalay per London and the South-East - £10,000
  • Ross Raisin per God's Own Country - £6,000
  • Thomas Leveritt per The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money for £2,000
  • Anna Ralph per The Floating Island - £2,000

2009

Anni 2010-2019[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

2010

  • Nadifa Mohamed per Mamba Boy (Black Mamba Boy) - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Evie Wyld per After the Fire, A Still Small Voice - £7,000
  • Jenn Ashworth per Un certo tipo di intimità (A Kind of Intimacy) - £1,500
  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani per I Do Not Come to You by Chance - £1,500

2011

  • Anjali Joseph per Lo scrivano di Bombay (Saraswati Park) - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Laura Barton per Twenty-One Locks - £6,000
  • Simon Lelic per Rupture - £2,500
  • Robert Williams per Luke and Jon - £2,500

2012

  • David Whitehouse per Bed - £8,000 (Prize)
  • Kalinda Ashton per The Danger Game - £3,000
  • Elizabeth Day per Scissors, Paper, Stone - £3,000
  • Annabel Pitcher per My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece for £3,000
  • Emma Jane Unsworth per Hungry the Stars and Everything - £3,000

2013

  • Grace McCleen per Il posto dei miracoli (The Land of Decoration) - £8,000 (Prize)
  • Chibundu Onuzo per The Spider King's Daughter - £7,000
  • Francesca Segal per La cugina americana (The Innocents) - £2,500
  • Will Wiles per Care of Wooden Floors - £2,500

2014

  • Nathan Filer per Chiedi alla luna (The Shock Of The Fall) - £10,000 (Prize)
  • NoViolet Bulawayo per C'è bisogno di nuovi nomi (We Need New Names) - £3,750
  • Sam Byers per Idiopathy - £3,750
  • Mave Fellowes per Chaplin and Company - £3,750
  • Matt Greene per Ostrich - £3,750

2015

  • Ben Fergusson per The Spring of Kasper Meier - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Emma Healey per Elizabeth è scomparsa (Elizabeth is Missing) - £5,000
  • Zoe Pilger per Eat My Heart Out - £5,000
  • Simon Wroe per Chop Chop - £5,000

2016

  • Alex Christofi per Glass - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Irenosen Okojie per Butterfly Fish - £5,000
  • Natasha Pulley per L'orologiaio di Filigree Street (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street) - £5,000
  • Lucy Wood per Wood for Weathering - £5,000

2017

  • Daniel Shand per Fallow - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Rowan Hisayo Buchanan per Harmless Like You - £3,000
  • Elnathan John per Born on a Tuesday - £3,000
  • Kathleen Jowitt per Speak Its Name - £3,000
  • Rob McCarthy per The Hollow Men - £3,000
  • Barney Norris per Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain - £3,000

2018

  • Omar Robert Hamilton per The City Always Wins - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Sarah Day per Mussolini's Island - £3,250
  • Clare Fisher per All the Good Things - £3,250
  • Eli Goldstone per Strange Heart Beating - £3,250
  • Lloyd Markham per Bad Ideas/Chemicals - £3,250
  • Masande Ntshanga per The Reactive - £3,250

2019

  • James Clarke per The Litten Path - £10,000 (Prize)
  • Samuel Fisher per The Chameleon - £2,700
  • Imogen Hermes Gowar per The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock - £2,700
  • Ruqaya Izzidien per The Watermelon Boys - £2,700
  • Daisy Lafarge per Paul - £2,700
  • Rebecca Ley per Sweet Fruit, Sour Land - £2,700
  • Sophie Mackintosh per The Water Cure - £2,700

Anni 2020-2029[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

2020

  • Kathryn Hind per Hitch - £10,000 (Prize)[9]
  • Stacey Halls per The Familiars - £5,400
  • Isabella Hammad per The Parisian - £5,400
  • Okeychukwu Nzelu per The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney - £5,400

2021

  • Thomas McMullan per The Last Good Man (Prize)[10]
  • Graeme Armstrong per The Young Team
  • Maame Blue per Bad Love
  • Nneoma Ike-Njoku per The Water House
  • Kiran Millwood Hargrave per The Mercies
  • Eley Williams per Il dizionario del bugiardo (The Liar’s Dictionary)

2022

  • Will McPhail per In: The Graphic Novel - £10,000 (Prize)[11]
  • Megan Nolan per Atti di sottomissione (Acts of desperation) - £4,050
  • Natasha Brown per Asembly - £4,050
  • Caleb Azumah Nelson per Mare aperto (Open Water) - £4,050
  • A. K. Blakemore per The Manningtree Witches - £4,050

2023

  • Daniel Wiles per Mercia’s Take - £10,000 (Prize)[12]
  • Paddy Crewe per My Name is Yip - £4,050
  • Imogen Crimp per A Very Nice Girl - £4,050
  • Maddie Mortimer per Mappe dei nostri corpi spettacolari (Maps of our Spectacular Bodies) - £4,050

Note[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

  1. ^ (EN) Descrizione del premio e albo d'oro, su my.christchurchcitylibraries.com. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  2. ^ (EN) Alison Flood, Betty Trask award goes to Ben Fergusson's 'grittily evocative' debut, su theguardian.com, 26 giugno 2015. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  3. ^ (EN) Katherine Cowdrey, Christofi debut wins £10k Betty Trask Prize, su thebookseller.com, 22 giugno 2016. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  4. ^ (EN) Katherine Cowdrey, Indian writer wins Betty Trask award for debut novel, su dnaindia.com, 23 giugno 2011. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  5. ^ (EN) Katherine Cowdrey e Heloise Wood, Daniel Shand wins Betty Trask Prize, su thebookseller.com, 20 giugno 2017. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  6. ^ (EN) Previous winners of the Betty Trask Prize and Awards, su societyofauthors.org. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020 (archiviato dall'url originale il 4 agosto 2020).
  7. ^ (EN) Emma Yates, Hari Kunzru wins Betty Trask Prize, su theguardian.com, 19 giugno 2002. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  8. ^ (EN) John Ezard, Zadie Smith's husband adds to family fortunes, su theguardian.com, 15 giugno 2006. URL consultato il 16 aprile 2020.
  9. ^ (EN) Ruth Comerford, Kathryn Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize at SoA Awards, su thebookseller.com, 18 giugno 2020. URL consultato il 20 giugno 2020.
  10. ^ (EN) Sian Bayley, McMullan and Millwood Hargrave win Society of Authors awards, su thebookseller.com, 9 giugno 2021. URL consultato il 13 luglio 2021.
  11. ^ (EN) Ruth Comerford, McPhail’s graphic novel among winners at £100k Society of Author Awards, su thebookseller.com, 1º giugno 2022. URL consultato il 3 giugno 2022.
  12. ^ (EN) Lauren Brown, Kennedy, Garmus, Wiles and more among winners of the Society of Authors’ Awards 2023, su thebookseller.com, 29 giugno 2023. URL consultato il 30 giugno 2023.

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