30.06.14 | Lisa Campbell - The Bookseller2013 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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