Hind wins £10,000 Betty Trask Prize for ‘Hitch’

19 June 2020 Books+Publishing

Kathryn Hind has been awarded the £10,000 (A$18,100) UK Society of Authors’ Betty Trask Prize for her novel Hitch (Hamish Hamilton). Judge Elanor Dymott said the book was ‘an extraordinary take on the picaresque ... 100% a winner. At times I found the book so intense I had to pause...