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 year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the "Prize", and the remainder given to one or more other writers, called the "Awards".^[1] The award was established in 1984 by the Society of Authors, at the bequest of the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels.^[2] The awards are given to traditional or romantic novels, rather than those of an experimental style, and can be for published or unpublished works.^[3]

List of award and prize winners

1980s

1990s

2000s

Since 2009, the Betty Trask Prize has been given to a single author; the remaining receive the Betty Trask Award. A blue ribbon () indicates the winner for that year.

Betty Trask Award winners, 2000-2009

Year	Author	Title	Prize	Ref.
2000	Jonathan Tulloch	The Season Ticket	£10,000
	Julia Leigh	The Hunter	£7,000
	Susan Elderkin	Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains	£4,000
	Galaxy Craze	By the Shore	£2,000
	Nicholas Griffin	The Requiem Shark	£2,000
2001	Zadie Smith	White Teeth	£8,000
	Justin Hill	The Drink and Dream Teahouse	£5,000
	Maggie O'Farrell	After You'd Gone	£5,000
	Vivien Kelly	Take One Young Man	£4,000
	Mohsin Hamid	Moth Smoke	£2,500
	Patrick Neate	Musungu Jim and the Great Chief Tuloko	£2,500
2002	Hari Kunzru	The Impressionist	£8,000	[4]
	Rachel Seiffert	The Dark Room	£5,000
	Shamim Sarif	The World Unseen	£4,000
	Helen Cross	My Summer of Love	£2,000
	Chloe Hooper	A Child's Book of True Crime	£2,000
	Susanna Jones	The Earthquake Bird	£2,000
	Gwendoline Riley	Cold Water	£2,000
2003	Jon McGregor	If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things	£10,000
	Sarah Hall	Haweswater	£6,000
	Stephanie Merritt	Gaveston	£4,000
	Elizabeth Garner	Nightdancing	£2,000
	Zoë Strachan	Negative Space	£2,000
	Adam Thirlwell	Politics	£1,000
2004	Louise Dean	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	Brass	£2,000
2006	Nick Laird	Utterly Monkey	£10,000
	Peter Hobbs	The Short Day Dying	£5,000
	Nicola Monaghan	The Killing Jar	£5,000
2007	Will Davis	My Side of the Story	£10,000
	Adam Foulds	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	£10,000
	Ross Raisin	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	The Wilderness	£12,000
	Eleanor Catton	The Rehearsal	£8,000

2010s

2020s