Somerset Maugham Award

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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[1] with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry.[2]

Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given.[3]

List of winners

1940s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1947–1949[4]
Year Author Title Publisher
1947
A.L. Barker
 		Innocents Hogarth Press
1948
P.H. Newby
 		Journey to the Interior Jonathan Cape
1949 Hamish Henderson Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica John Lehmann

1950s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1950–1959[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1950 Nigel Kneale Tomato Cain & Other Stories Collins
1951 Roland Camberton Scamp John Lehmann
1952 Francis King The Dividing Stream Longman
1953 Emyr Humphreys Hear and Forgive
Gollancz
1954 Doris Lessing Five Short Novels Michael Joseph
1955 Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim
Gollancz
1956 Elizabeth Jennings A Way of Looking Deutsch
1957 George Lamming In the Castle of My Skin Michael Joseph [5][6]
1958 John Wain Preliminary Essays Macmillan
1959 Thom Gunn A Sense of Movement
Faber and Faber

1960s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1960–1969[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1960 Ted Hughes The Hawk in the Rain
Faber and Faber
1961
V.S. Naipaul
 		Miguel Street
Deutsch
1962 Hugh Thomas The Spanish Civil War Eyre & Spottiswoode
1963 David Storey Flight Into Camden Longman
1964 Dan Jacobson Time of Arrival Weidenfeld
John Le Carré
 		The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Gollancz
1965 Peter Everett Negatives Jonathan Cape
1966 Michael Frayn The Tin Men Collins
1966 Julian Mitchell The White Father Constable
1967
B.S. Johnson
 		Trawl
Secker & Warburg
Andrew Sinclair The Better Half Jonathan Cape
1968 Paul Bailey At The Jerusalem Jonathan Cape [7][8]
Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist
Faber and Faber
1969 Angela Carter Several Perceptions Heinemann

1970s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1970–1979[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1970 Jane Gaskell A Sweet Sweet Summer Hodder & Stoughton
Piers Paul Read Monk Dawson
Secker & Warburg
1971 Richard Barber The Knight and Chivalry Longman
Michael Hastings Tussy Is Me Weidenfeld
Susan Hill I’m the King of the Castle Hamish Hamilton
1972 Douglas Dunn Terry Street
Faber and Faber
Gillian Tindall Fly Away Home Hodder & Stoughton
1973 Peter Prince Play Things
Gollancz
 [9]
Paul Strathern A Season in Abyssinia Macmillan
Jonathan Street Prudence Dictates Hart-Davis
1974 Martin Amis The Rachel Papers Jonathan Cape [10][11]
1975 No Award [12]
1976 Dominic Cooper The Dead of Winter Chatto & Windus
Ian McEwan First Love, Last Rites Jonathan Cape [13]
1977 Richard Holmes Shelley: The Pursuit
Quartet Books
1978 Tom Paulin A State of Justice Faber and Faber
Nigel Williams My Life Closed Twice
Secker & Warburg
1979 Helen Hodgman Jack & Jill Duckworth [14][12]
Sara Maitland Daughter of Jerusalem
Blond & Briggs

1980s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1980–1989[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1980 Humphrey Carpenter The Inklings Allen & Unwin
Max Hastings Bomber Command Michael Joseph [15]
Christopher Reid Arcadia Oxford University Press
1981 Julian Barnes Metroland Jonathan Cape
Clive Sinclair Hearts of Gold Allison & Busby [16][17]
A.N. Wilson
 		The Healing Art
Secker & Warburg
1982 William Boyd A Good Man in Africa Hamish Hamilton
Adam Mars-Jones Lantern Lecture Faber and Faber
1983
Lisa St Aubin de Teran
 		Keepers of the House Jonathan Cape
1984 Peter Ackroyd The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde Hamish Hamilton
Timothy Garton Ash The Polish Revolution: Solidarity Jonathan Cape
Sean O'Brien The Indoor Park Bloodaxe Books [18]
1985 Blake Morrison Dark Glasses Chatto & Windus [19]
Jeremy Reed By the Fisheries Jonathan Cape
Jane Rogers Her Living Image
Faber and Faber
 [20][21][22]
1986 Patricia Ferguson Family Myths and Legends Andre Deutsch [23]
Adam Nicolson Frontiers Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Tim Parks Tongues of Flame Heinemann
1987 Stephen Gregory The Cormorant Heinemann [24]
Janni Howker Isaac Campion Julia MacRae
Andrew Motion The Lamberts Chatto & Windus
1988 Jimmy Burns The Land That Lost Its Heroes Bloomsbury
Carol Ann Duffy Selling Manhattan Anvil
Matthew Kneale Whore Banquets
Gollancz Heinemann
1989 Rupert Christiansen Romantic Affinities Bodley Head
Alan Hollinghurst The Swimming-Pool Library Chatto & Windus
Deirdre Madden The Birds of the Innocent Wood
Faber and Faber

1990s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1990–1999[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
1990 Mark Hudson Our Grandmothers' Drums
Secker & Warburg
Sam North The Automatic Man
Secker & Warburg
 [25]
Nicholas Shakespeare The Vision of Elena Silves Collins Harvill
1991 Peter Benson The Other Occupant Macmillan [26]
Lesley Glaister Honour Thy Father
Secker & Warburg
 [27][28]
Helen Simpson Four Bare Legs in a Bed Heinemann
1992 Geoff Dyer But Beautiful Jonathan Cape [29][30]
Lawrence Norfolk Lempriere’s Dictionary S. Stevenson
Gerard Woodward Householder Chatto & Windus
1993 Dea Birkett Jella
Gollancz
Glyn Maxwell Out of the Rain Bloodaxe Books [31]
Duncan McLean Bucket of Tongues
Secker & Warburg
 [32][33]
1994 Jackie Kay Other Lovers Bloodaxe Books
A.L. Kennedy
 		Looking for the Possible Dance
Secker & Warburg
Philip Marsden Crossing Place HarperCollins
1995 Patrick French Younghusband HarperCollins [34]
Simon Garfield The End of Innocence
Faber and Faber
Kathleen Jamie The Queen of Sheba Bloodaxe Books [35]
Laura Thompson The Dogs Chatto & Windus [36]
1996 Katherine Pierpoint Truffle Beds
Faber and Faber
 [37]
Alan Warner Morvern Callar Vintage [38]
1997 Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones Flamingo
Kate Clanchy Slattern Chatto & Windus [39]
Philip Hensher Kitchen Venom Hamish Hamilton
Francis Spufford I May Be Some Time
Faber and Faber
1998 Rachel Cusk The Country Life Picador, Macmillan [40]
Jonathan Rendall This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own
Faber and Faber
Kate Summerscale The Queen of Whale Cay
Fourth Estate
Robert Twigger Angry White Pyjamas Indigo
1999 Andrea Ashworth
Once In a House On Fire
 		Picador, Macmillan
Paul Farley The Boy from the Chemist Is Here To See You Picador, Macmillan
Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland
Faber and Faber
Jonathan Freedland Bring Home the Revolution
Fourth Estate

2000s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 2000–2009[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2000 Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons HarperCollins [41]
Sarah Waters Affinity Virago Press [42]
2001 Edward Platt Leadville Picador, Macmillan
Ben Rice Pobby and Dingan Jonathan Cape [12]
2002 Charlotte Hobson Black Earth City Granta
Marcel Theroux The Paperchase
Abacus
2003 William Fiennes The Snow Geese Picador, Macmillan
Hari Kunzru The Impressionist Hamish Hamilton [43]
Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Bloomsbury [44][45]
2004 Mark Blayney Two Kinds of Silence Manuscript Publishing [46]
Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind Granta
Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem Picador, Macmillan [47][48][49]
2005 Justin Hill Passing Under Heaven
Abacus
Maggie O'Farrell The Distance Between Us Review [50][51]
2006 Chris Cleave Incendiary Chatto & Windus
Owen Sheers Skirrid Hill Seren Books
Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton
2007 Horatio Clare Running for the Hills John Murray [52]
James Scudamore The Amnesia Clinic Harvill Secker [53][54]
2008 Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts Canongate Books [55]
Nick Laird On Purpose
Faber and Faber
 [56]
Gwendoline Riley Joshua Spassky Cape [57]
Adam Thirlwell Miss Herbert (US title: The Delighted States) Cape [58][59]
2009 Alice Albinia
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
 		John Murray
Adam Foulds The Broken Word Cape
Rodge Glass Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography Bloomsbury [60]
Henry Hitchings The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English John Murray
Thomas Leveritt The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money Harvill Secker
Helen Walsh Once Upon a Time in England Canongate Books [61]

2010s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 2010–2019[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Prize Ref.
2010 Ben Wilson What Price Liberty?
Faber and Faber
 £2,000 [62]
Helen Oyeyemi White is for Witching Picador £3,000 [63][64]
Jacob Polley Talk of the Town Picador £5,000 [65]
2011 Miriam Gamble The Squirrels Are Dead Bloodaxe £3,500
Alexandra Harris Romantic Moderns Thames and Hudson £3,500
Adam O'Riordan In the Flesh Chatto Poetry £3,500 [66]
2012 No award given [12]
2013 Ned Beauman
The Teleportation Accident
 		Sceptre £2,500 [67]
Abi Curtis The Glass Delusion Salt £2,500
Joe Stretch The Adult Cape £2,500
Lucy Wood Diving Belles Bloomsbury £2,500
2014 Amy Sackville Orkney Granta £2,000
Daisy Hildyard Hunters in the Snow Glass Delusion Cape £4,000
Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard of Lost Souls Simon & Schuster £4,000 [68]
2015 Jonathan Beckman How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne John Murray £2,500 [69]
Liz Berry Black Country Chatto & Windus £2,500 [69]
Ben Brooks Lolito Canongate Books £2,500 [69]
Zoe Pilger Eat My Heart Out Serpent’s Tail £2,500 [69]
2016 Jessie Greengrass An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It JM Originals £2,500
Daisy Hay Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance Chatto & Windus £2,500
Andrew McMillan Physical Cape Poetry £2,500 [70][71][72]
Thomas Morris We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
Faber and Faber
 £2,500
Jack Underwood Happiness
Faber and Faber
 £2,500
2017 Edmund Gordon The Invention of Angela Carter Vintage £5,000 [73]
Melissa Lee-Houghton Sunshine Penned in the Margins £5,000 [73]
Martin MacInnes Infinite Ground Atlantic Books £5,000
2018 Kayo Chingonyi Kumukanda Chatto Poetry £5,250 [74]
Fiona Mozley Elmet JM Originals £5,250
Miriam Nash All the Prayers in the House Bloodaxe £5,250
2019 Raymond Antrobus The Perseverance Penned in the Margins £4,000 [75][76]
Damian Le Bas The Stopping Places Chatto & Windus £4,000
Phoebe Power Shrines of Upper Austria Carcanet £4,000
Nell Stevens
Mrs Gaskell and Me
 		Picador £4,000

2020s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 2020–present[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref.
2020 Oliver Soden Michael Tippett: The Biography Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion
Roseanne Watt Moder Dy Birlinn/Polygon
Alex Allison The Art of the Body Dialogue Books/Little, Brown & Co.
Amrou Al-Kadhi Unicorn
4th Estate
2021 Lamorna Ash Dark, Salt, Clear Bloomsbury
Isabelle Baafi Ripe Ignition Press
Akeem Balogun The Storm Okapi Books
Graeme Armstrong The Young Team
Pan Macmillan/Picador
 [77]
2022 Stephanie Sy-Quia Amnion Granta, Granta Poetry [78]
Tice Cin Keeping the House And Other Stories [78][79]
Lucia Osborne-Crowley My Body Keeps Your Secrets Indigo Press [78]
Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water Penguin Random House/Viking Press [78]
Maia Elsner Overrun by Wild Boars Flipped Eye Publishing [78]
2023 Travis Alabanza None of the Above Canongate [80]
Sussie Anie To Fill a Yellow House Phoenix Books
Mya-Rose Craig Birdgirl Penguin
Jay Gao Imperium Carcanet
Gurnaik Johal We Move Profile
Moses McKenzie An Olive Grove in Ends Wildfire

References

  1. ^ "The Somerset Maugham Awards :: National Association of Writers in Education ::". www.nawe.co.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ "The Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Library Thing. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  4. ^
    The Society of Authors
    . 8 May 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Rediscover: George Lamming". Shelf Awareness. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Obituary Note: George Lamming". Shelf Awareness. 16 June 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Paul Bailey". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  8. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  9. ^ "The Great Circle by Peter Prince". Publishers Weekly. 30 June 1997. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  10. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  11. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  12. ^ a b c d "Somerset Maugham Award". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  13. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Passing Remarks by Helen Hodgman, Helen Hodgeman". Publishers Weekly. 4 May 1998. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  15. ^ "Max Hastings Receives 2012 Pritzker Military Award". Publishers Weekly. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  16. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  17. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  18. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  19. ^ "Blake Morrison". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  20. ^ "THE VOYAGE HOME by Jane Rogers". Publishers Weekly. 5 July 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  21. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  22. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  23. ^ "Write to Me by Patricia Ferguson". Publishers Weekly. 1 July 1991. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  24. ^ "The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory". Publishers Weekly. 25 April 1988. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  25. ^ "Chapel Street by Sam North". Publishers Weekly. 1 January 1992. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  26. ^ "Riptide by Peter Benson". Publishers Weekly. 2 January 1995. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  27. ^ "Trick or Treat by Lesley Glaister". Publishers Weekly. 1 January 1992. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  28. ^ "Easy Peasy by Lesley Glaister". Publishers Weekly. 1 September 1997. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  29. ^ "Geoff Dyer: The Shape of the Landscape". Shelf Awareness. 17 May 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  30. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  31. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  32. ^ "Bunker Man by Duncan McLean". Publishers Weekly. 28 April 1997. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  33. ^ "Bucket of Tongues by Duncan McLean". Publishers Weekly. 17 May 1999. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  34. ^ "Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division by Patrick French". Publishers Weekly. 4 May 1998. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  35. ^ "Forward Prizes for Poetry 2004". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  36. ^ "Laura Thompson". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  37. ^ "Forward Prize 2005". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  38. ^ "Morvern Callar by Alan Warner". Publishers Weekly. 17 February 1997. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  39. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  40. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  41. ^ "The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th Century to the Present Day by Bella Bathurst". Publishers Weekly. 13 June 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  42. ^ Greenstreet, Rosanna (21 May 2005). "Q&A". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  43. ^ "TRANSMISSION by Hari Kunzru". Publishers Weekly. 30 May 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  44. ^ "Reading with... Jon McGregor". Shelf Awareness. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  45. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  46. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  47. ^ "Charlotte Mendelson". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  48. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  49. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  50. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  51. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  52. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  53. ^ Deahl, Rachel (21 December 2009). "Deals: 12/21/2009". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  54. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  55. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  56. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  57. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  58. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  59. ISSN 0029-7712
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  60. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  61. ^ "Review: The Lemon Grove". Shelf Awareness. 29 May 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  62. ^ "Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age by Ben Wilson". Publishers Weekly. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  63. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  64. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  65. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  66. ^ "Adam O'Riordan". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  67. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  68. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  69. ^
    ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  70. ^ "Awards: Princess of Asturias; PEN Ackerley; Society of Authors". Shelf Awareness. 23 June 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  71. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  72. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  73. ^ a b "2017 Somerset Maugham Award Winners". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  74. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  75. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  76. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  77. ^ "Graeme Armstrong". Blake Friedmann. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  78. ^ a b c d e "Graphic novel wins at the 2022 Society of Authors' Awards". Society of Authors. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  79. ^ "Tice Cin's KEEPING THE HOUSE wins a Somerset Maugham Award". Watson Little. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  80. ^ "'A plethora of riches' – announcing the winners of the 2023 Society of Authors' Awards - The Society of Authors". 28 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Somerset_Maugham_Award&oldid=1219211560"