Filer and McBride among SoA award winners

30.06.14 | Lisa Campbell - The Bookseller

More than £82,000 has been awarded to 29 authors and poets at the Society of Authors’ Awards 2014, including Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Eimear McBride and Costa winner Nathan Filer.

2013 Costa winner Nathan Filer was awarded The Betty Trask Prize (£10,000) for The Shock of the Fall (The Borough Press). Meanwhile four Betty Trask Awards (£3,750 each) were also presented to NoViolet Bulawayo for We Need New Names (Vintage), Sam Byers for Idiopathy (Fourth Estate), Mave Fellowes for Chaplin & Company (Vintage) and Matt Greene for Ostrich (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).

Eimear McBride, who won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction this year for A Girl is Half-Formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press), was awarded a Travelling Scholarship Award (£1,500) that enables authors to travel and keep in touch with colleagues abroad. Authors Daljit Nagra and Michela Wrong was also awarded the anonymously-sponsored travel scholarship.

The £5,000 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, which was presented by the sponsors, Flora Fraser and Peter Soros, was awarded to Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning (Penguin).

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