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 35 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).



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Year
Author
Book
1947

A. L. Barker

Innocents
1948

P. H. Newby

Journey to the Interior
1949

Hamish Henderson

Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
1950

Nigel Kneale

Tomato Cain & Other Stories
1951

Roland Camberton

Scamp
1952

Francis King

The Dividing Stream
1953

Emyr Humphreys

Hear and Forgive
1954

Doris Lessing

Five
1955

Kingsley Amis

Lucky Jim
1956

Elizabeth Jennings

A Way of Looking
1957

George Lamming

In the Castle of My Skin
1958

John Wain

Preliminary Essays
1959

Thom Gunn

A Sense Of Movement
1960

Ted Hughes

The Hawk in the Rain
1961

V. S. Naipaul

Miguel Street
1962

Hugh Thomas

The Spanish Civil War
1963

David Storey

Flight Into Camden
1964

Dan Jacobson

Time of Arrival

John le Carré

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
1965

Peter Everett

Negatives
1966

Michael Frayn

The Tin Men

Julian Mitchell

The White Father
1967

B. S. Johnson

Trawl

Andrew Sinclair

The Better Half
1968

Paul Bailey

At The Jerusalem

Seamus Heaney

Death of a Naturalist
1969

Angela Carter

Several Perceptions
1970

Jane Gaskell

A Sweet Sweet Summer

Piers Paul Read

Monk Dawson
1971

Susan Hill

I'm the King of the Castle

Richard Barber

The Knight and Chivalry

Michael Hastings

Tussy Is Me
1972

Douglas Dunn

Terry Street

Gillian Tindall

Fly Away Home
1973

Peter Prince

Play Things

Paul Strathern

A Season in Abyssinia

Jonathan Street

Prudence Dictates
1974

Martin Amis

The Rachel Papers
1975
No Award
1976

Dominic Cooper

The Dead of Winter

Ian McEwan

First Love, Last Rites
1977

Richard Holmes

Shelley: The Pursuit
1978

Tom Paulin

A State of Justice

Nigel Williams

My Life Closed Twice
1979

Helen Hodgman

Jack & Jill

Sara Maitland

Daughter of Jerusalem
1980

Max Hastings

Bomber Command

Christopher Reid

Arcadia

Humphrey Carpenter

The Inklings
1981

Julian Barnes

Metroland

Clive Sinclair

Hearts of Gold

A. N. Wilson

The Healing Art
1982

William Boyd

A Good Man in Africa

Adam Mars-Jones

Lantern Lecture
1983

Lisa St Aubin de Teran

Keepers of the House
1984

Peter Ackroyd

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Timothy Garton Ash

The Polish Revolution: Solidarity

Sean O'Brien

The Indoor Park
1985

Blake Morrison

Dark Glasses

Jeremy Reed

By the Fisheries

Jane Rogers

Her Living Image
1986

Patricia Ferguson

Family Myths and Legends

Adam Nicolson

Frontiers

Tim Parks

Tongues of Flame
1987

Stephen Gregory

The Cormorant

Janni Howker

Isaac Campion

Andrew Motion

The Lamberts
1988

Jimmy Burns

The Land That Lost Its Heroes

Carol Ann Duffy

Selling Manhattan

Matthew Kneale

Whore Banquets
1989

Rupert Christiansen

Romantic Affinities

Alan Hollinghurst

The Swimming Pool Library

Deirdre Madden

The Birds of the Innocent Wood
1990

Mark Hudson

Our Grandmothers' Drums

Sam North

The Automatic Man

Nicholas Shakespeare

The Vision of Elena Silves
1991

Peter Benson

The Other Occupant

Lesley Glaister

Honour Thy Father

Helen Simpson

Four Bare Legs in a Bed
1992

Geoff Dyer

But Beautiful

Lawrence Norfolk

Lemprière's Dictionary

Gerard Woodward

Householder
1993

Dea Birkett

Jella

Duncan McLean

Bucket of Tongues

Glyn Maxwell

Out of the Rain
1994

Jackie Kay

Other Lovers

A. L. Kennedy

Looking For the Possible Dance

Philip Marsden

Crossing Place
1995

Patrick French

Younghusband

Simon Garfield

The End of Innocence

Kathleen Jamie

The Queen of Sheba

Laura Thompson

The Dogs
1996

Katherine Pierpoint

Truffle Beds

Alan Warner

Morvern Callar
1997

Rhidian Brook

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

Kate Clanchy

Slattern

Philip Hensher

Kitchen Venom

Francis Spufford

I May Be Some Time
1998

Rachel Cusk

The Country Life

Jonathan Rendall

This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own

Kate Summerscale

The Queen of Whale Cay

Robert Twigger

Angry White Pyjamas
1999

Andrea Ashworth

Once in a House on Fire

Paul Farley

The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You

Giles Foden

The Last King of Scotland

Jonathan Freedland

Bring Home the Revolution
2000

Bella Bathurst

The Lighthouse Stevensons

Sarah Waters

Affinity
2001

Edward Platt

Leadville

Ben Rice

Pobby and Dingan
2002

Charlotte Hobson

Black Earth City

Marcel Theroux

The Paperchase
2003

William Fiennes

The Snow Geese

Hari Kunzru

The Impressionist

Jon McGregor

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
2004

Charlotte Mendelson

Daughters of Jerusalem

Mark Blayney

Two Kinds of Silence

Robert Macfarlane

Mountains of the Mind
2005

Justin Hill

Passing Under Heaven

Maggie O'Farrell

The Distance Between Us
2006

Chris Cleave

Incendiary

Zadie Smith

On Beauty

Owen Sheers

Skirrid Hill
2007

Horatio Clare

Running For The Hills

James Scudamore

The Amnesia Clinic
2008

Steven Hall

The Raw Shark Texts

Nick Laird

On Purpose

Gwendoline Riley

Joshua Spassky

Adam Thirlwell

Miss Herbert (US title: The Delighted States)
2009

Adam Foulds

The Broken Word

Alice Albinia

Empires of the Indus

Rodge Glass

Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography

Henry Hitchings

The Secret Life of Words

Thomas Leveritt

The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money

Helen Walsh

Once Upon a Time in England
2010

Jacob Polley

Talk of the Town

Helen Oyeyemi

White is for Witching

Ben Wilson

What Price Liberty?
2011

Miriam Gamble

The Squirrels Are Dead

Alexandra Harris

Romantic Moderns

Adam O’Riordan

In the Flesh
2012
No Award
2013

Ned Beauman

The Teleportation Accident

Abi Curtis

The Glass Delusion

Joe Stretch

The Adult

Lucy Wood

Diving Belles
2014

Nadifa Mohamed

The Orchard of Lost Souls

Daisy Hildyard

Hunters in the Snow Grass

Amy Sackville

Orkney
2015

Jonathan Beckman

How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne

Liz Berry

Black Country

Ben Brooks

Lolito

Zoe Pilger

Eat My Heart Out
2016

Jessie Greengrass

An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It

Daisy Hay

Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance

Andrew McMillan

Physical

Thomas Morris

We Don't Know What We're Doing

Jack Underwood

Happiness
2017

Edmund Gordon

The Invention of Angela Carter

Melissa Lee-Houghton

Sunshine

Martin MacInnes

Infinite Ground
2018

Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

Fiona Mozley

Elmet

Miriam Nash

All the Prayers in the House


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