ShelfEvidentBetty Trask Award — Complete Winners List
42 years of winners · Society of Authors · Since 1984 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Ashani Lewis | Dialogue Books | |
| 2024 | Tom Crewe | Chatto & Windus | |
| 2020 | Kathryn Hind | — | |
| 2019 | James Clarke | — | |
| 2018 | Omar Robert Hamilton | Faber & Faber | |
| 2017 | Daniel Shand | — | |
| 2016 | Alex Christofi | — | |
| 2015 | Ben Fergusson | — | |
| 2014 | Nathan Filer | HarperCollins | |
| 2013 | Grace McCleen | William Heinemann | |
| 2012 | David Whitehouse | — | |
| 2011 | Anjali Joseph | Fourth Estate | |
| 2010 | Nadifa Mohamed | — | |
| 2009 | Samantha Harvey | — | |
| 2008 | David Szalay | — | |
| 2007 | Will Davis | — | |
| 2006 | Nick Laird | — | |
| 2005 | Susan Fletcher | — | |
| 2004 | Louise Dean | — | |
| 2003 | Jon McGregor | — | |
| 2002 | Hari Kunzru | — | |
| 2001 | Zadie Smith | — | |
| 2000 | Jonathan Tulloch | — | |
| 1999 | Elliot Perlman | — | |
| 1998 | Kiran Desai | — | |
| 1997 | Alex Garland | — | |
| 1996 | John Lanchester | — | |
| 1995 | Robert Newman | — | |
| 1994 | Colin Bateman | — | |
| 1993 | Mark Blackaby | — | |
| 1992 | Peter M. Rosenburg | — | |
| 1991 | Amit Chaudhuri | — | |
| 1990 | Robert McLiam Wilson | — | |
| 1989 | Nigel Watts | — | |
| 1988 | Alex Martin | — | |
| 1987 | James Maw | — | |
| 1986 | Tim Parks | — | |
| 1985 | Susan Kay | — | |
| 1984 | Ronald Frame | — |
