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 The award is given by the Society of Authors for both published and unpublished works.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/
