Somerset Maugham Award
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 30 with works published in the previous year to the award, the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry.
Since 1964, multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012, the award was not given. The award has twice been won by the son of a previous winner: Kingsley Amis (winner in 1955) was the father of Martin Amis (1974), and Nigel Kneale (1950) the father of Matthew Kneale (1988).
List of winners
2020s
2020
- Alex Allison for The Art of the Body (Dialogue Books/Little, Brown)
- Oliver Soden for Michael Tippett: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion)
- Roseanne Watt for Moder Dy (Birlinn/Polygon)
- Amrou Al-Kadhi for Unicorn (4th Estate)
2010s
2019
- Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance
- Damian Le Bas for The Stopping Places
- Phoebe Power for Shrines of Upper Austria
- Nell Stevens for Mrs Gaskell and Me
2018
- Kayo Chingonyi for Kumukanda
- Fiona Mozley for Elmet
- Miriam Nash for All the Prayers in the House
2017
- Edmund Gordon for The Invention of Angela Carter
- Melissa Lee-Houghton for Sunshine
- Martin MacInnes for Infinite Ground
2016
- Jessie Greengrass for An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It
- Daisy Hay for Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance
- Andrew McMillan for Physical
- Thomas Morris for We Don't Know What We're Doing
- Jack Underwood for Happiness
2015
- Jonathan Beckman for How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne
- Liz Berry for Black Country
- Ben Brooks for Lolito
- Zoe Pilger for Eat My Heart Out
2014
- Nadifa Mohamed for The Orchard of Lost Souls
- Daisy Hildyard for Hunters in the Snow Grass
- Amy Sackville for Orkney
2013
- Ned Beauman for The Teleportation Accident
- Abi Curtis for The Glass Delusion
- Joe Stretch for The Adult
- Lucy Wood for Diving Belles
2012
- No Award
2011
- Miriam Gamble for The Squirrels Are Dead
- Alexandra Harris for Romantic Moderns
- Adam O’Riordan for In the Flesh
2010
- Jacob Polley for Talk of the Town
- Helen Oyeyemi for White is for Witching
- Ben Wilson for What Price Liberty?
2000s
2009
- Adam Foulds for The Broken Word
- Alice Albinia for Empires of the Indus
- Rodge Glass for Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography
- Henry Hitchings for The Secret Life of Words
- Thomas Leveritt for The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money
- Helen Walsh for Once Upon a Time in England
2008
- Steven Hall for The Raw Shark Texts
- Nick Laird for On Purpose
- Gwendoline Riley for Joshua Spassky
- Adam Thirlwell for Miss Herbert (US title: The Delighted States)
2007
- Horatio Clare for Running For The Hills
- James Scudamore for The Amnesia Clinic
2006
- Chris Cleave for Incendiary
- Zadie Smith for On Beauty
- Owen Sheers for Skirrid Hill
2005
- Justin Hill for Passing Under Heaven
- Maggie O'Farrell for The Distance Between Us
2004
- Charlotte Mendelson for Daughters of Jerusalem
- Mark Blayney for Two Kinds of Silence
- Robert Macfarlane for Mountains of the Mind
2003
- William Fiennes for The Snow Geese
- Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist
- Jon McGregor for If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
2002
- Charlotte Hobson for Black Earth City
- Marcel Theroux for The Paperchase
2001
2000
- Bella Bathurst for The Lighthouse Stevensons
- Sarah Waters for Affinity
1900s
1999
- Andrea Ashworth for Once in a House on Fire
- Paul Farley for The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
- Giles Foden for The Last King of Scotland
- Jonathan Freedland for Bring Home the Revolution
1998
- Rachel Cusk for The Country Life
- Jonathan Rendall for This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own
- Kate Summerscale for The Queen of Whale Cay
- Robert Twigger for Angry White Pyjamas
1997
- Rhidian Brook for The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
- Kate Clanchy for Slattern
- Philip Hensher for Kitchen Venom
- Francis Spufford for I May Be Some Time
1996
- Katherine Pierpoint for Truffle Beds
- Alan Warner for Morvern Callar
1995
- Patrick French for Younghusband
- Simon Garfield for The End of Innocence
- Kathleen Jamie for The Queen of Sheba
- Laura Thompson for The Dogs
1994
- Jackie Kay for Other Lovers
- A. L. Kennedy for Looking For the Possible Dance
- Philip Marsden for Crossing Place
1993
- Dea Birkett for Jella
- Duncan McLean for Bucket of Tongues
- Glyn Maxwell for Out of the Rain
1992
- Geoff Dyer for But Beautiful
- Lawrence Norfolk for Lemprière's Dictionary
- Gerard Woodward for Householder
1991
- Peter Benson for The Other Occupant
- Lesley Glaister for Honour Thy Father
- Helen Simpson for Four Bare Legs in a Bed
1990
- Mark Hudson for Our Grandmothers' Drums
- Sam North for The Automatic Man
- Nicholas Shakespeare for The Vision of Elena Silves
1980s
1989
- Rupert Christiansen for Romantic Affinities
- Alan Hollinghurst for The Swimming Pool Library
- Deirdre Madden for The Birds of the Innocent Wood
1988
- Jimmy Burns for The Land That Lost Its Heroes
- Carol Ann Duffy for Selling Manhattan
- Matthew Kneale for Whore Banquets
1987
- Stephen Gregory for The Cormorant
- Janni Howker for Isaac Campion
- Andrew Motion for The Lamberts
1986
- Patricia Ferguson for Family Myths and Legends
- Adam Nicolson for Frontiers
- Tim Parks for Tongues of Flame
1985
- Blake Morrison for Dark Glasses
- Jeremy Reed for By the Fisheries
- Jane Rogers for Her Living Image
1984
- Peter Ackroyd for The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
- Timothy Garton Ash for The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
- Sean O'Brien for The Indoor Park
1983
1982
- William Boyd for A Good Man in Africa
- Adam Mars-Jones for Lantern Lecture
1981
- Julian Barnes for Metroland
- Clive Sinclair for Hearts of Gold
- A. N. Wilson for The Healing Art
1980
- Max Hastings for Bomber Command
- Christopher Reid for Arcadia
- Humphrey Carpenter for The Inklings
1970s
1979
- Helen Hodgman for Jack & Jill
- Sara Maitland for Daughter of Jerusalem
1978
- Tom Paulin for A State of Justice
- Nigel Williams for My Life Closed Twice
1977
- Richard Holmes for Shelley: The Pursuit
1976
- Dominic Cooper for The Dead of Winter
- Ian McEwan for First Love, Last Rites
1975
- No Award
1974
1973
- Peter Prince for Play Things
- Paul Strathern for A Season in Abyssinia
- Jonathan Street for Prudence Dictates
1972
- Douglas Dunn for Terry Street
- Gillian Tindall for Fly Away Home
1971
- Susan Hill for I'm the King of the Castle
- Richard Barber for The Knight and Chivalry
- Michael Hastings for Tussy Is Me
1970
- Jane Gaskell for A Sweet Sweet Summer
- Piers Paul Read for Monk Dawson
1960s
1969
1968
- Paul Bailey for At The Jerusalem
- Seamus Heaney for Death of a Naturalist
1967
- B. S. Johnson for Trawl
- Andrew Sinclair for The Better Half
1966
- Michael Frayn for The Tin Men
- Julian Mitchell for The White Father
1965
- Peter Everett for Negatives
1964
- Dan Jacobson for Time of Arrival
- John le Carré for The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
1963
- David Storey for Flight Into Camden
1962
1961
1960
- Ted Hughes for The Hawk in the Rain
1950s
1959
- Thom Gunn for A Sense Of Movement
1958
- John Wain for Preliminary Essays
1957
1956
- Elizabeth Jennings for A Way of Looking
1955
1954
- Doris Lessing for Five Short Novels
1953
- Emyr Humphreys for Hear and Forgive
1952
- Francis King for The Dividing Stream
1951
- Roland Camberton for Scamp
1950
- Nigel Kneale for Tomato Cain & Other Stories
1940s
1949
- Hamish Henderson for Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
1948
- P. H. Newby for Journey to the Interior
1947
- A. L. Barker for Innocents
References
External links
- "Somerset Maugham Award past winners". Society of Authors. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
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