Betty Trask Prize and Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (1991) Winner
Lesley Glaister
レスリー・グレイスター
Resurī Gureisutā
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1956-10-04
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Poet, Playwright
- Active Years
- 1990-2024
- Affiliations
- University of St Andrews (Lecturer in Creative Writing), University of Edinburgh (Writer in Residence)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Nominations
- Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist (Now You See Me, 2002), Guardian Fiction Prize shortlist (Easy Peasy, 1998)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Somerset Maugham Award | Honour Thy Father | — | — | winner |
| 1991 | Betty Trask Award | Honour Thy Father | — | — | winner |
| 2014 | Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize | Little Egypt | — | — | winner |
Somerset Maugham Award
1991
Work:
Honour Thy Father
Result:
winner
Betty Trask Award
1991
Work:
Honour Thy Father
Result:
winner
Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
2014
Work:
Little Egypt
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
Honour Thy Father
1990 NovelLittle Egypt
2014 NovelEasy Peasy
1998 NovelBibliography
- Honour Thy Father (1990)
- Trick or Treat (1990)
- Digging to Australia (1992)
- Limestone and Clay (1993)
- Partial Eclipse (1994)
- The Private Parts of Women (1996)
- Easy Peasy (1998)
- Sheer Blue Bliss (1999)
- Now You See Me (2001)
- As Far as You Can Go (2004)
- Nina Todd Has Gone (2007)
- Chosen (2010)
- Little Egypt (2014)
- The Squeeze (2017)
- Blasted Things (2020)
- A Particular Man (2024)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Serious subject matter with a thread of dark humour
- Recurring Motifs
- murdermadnessobsession
Legacy
British novelist, poet, and playwright who has written 16 novels, one play, short stories, and radio plays, often dealing with serious themes like murder, madness, and obsession with dark humour.