Betty Trask Award
From Angl-Am
The Betty Trask Award
This Prize is awarded to a writer under the age of 35 for his or her first novel. The award is given for both published and unpublished works. The author must be a Commonwealth citizen, and the work must be 'of a romantic or traditional nature, i.e. not experimental'. It is founded from a bequest by the late Betty Trask, a reclusive author of over thirty romance novels. This award has been established since 1984 and total £25,000(shared)each year.
This year (2007) there have been five different books, the winner is Will Davis with his novel called "My side of the story".
homepages:
http://www.societyofauthors.org/
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/BettyTrask/