Book awards: Somerset Maugham Award

Award description
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £6000 per winner, to be spent on foreign travel. The total fund for each year is £12000. Since 1964, multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975, the award was not given. The awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.

The Delighted States by Adam Thirlwell
2008

Joshua Spassky by Gwendoline Riley
2008

On Purpose by Nick Laird
2008

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
2008

The Amnesia Clinic by James Scudamore
2007

Running for the hills : growing up on my mother's sheep farm in Wales by Horatio Clare
2007

Incendiary by Chris Cleave
2006

On Beauty by Zadie Smith
2006

Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers
2006

The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
2005

Passing Under Heaven by Justin Hill
2005

Daughters of Jerusalem by Charlotte Mendelson
2004

Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
2004

Two Kinds of Silence by Mark Blayney
2004

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
2003

The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
2003

The Snow Geese by William Fiennes
2003

Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia by Charlotte Hobson
2002

The Paperchase by Marcel Theroux
2002

Leadville : a biography of the A40 by Edward Platt
2001

Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
2001

Affinity by Sarah Waters
2000

The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You by Paul Farley
1999

Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic by Jonathan Freedland
1999

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
1999

Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
1999

Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police by Robert Twigger
1998

The Country Life: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
1998

The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale
1998

This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing by Jonathan Rendall
1998

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford
1997

Kitchen Venom by Philip Hensher
1997

Slattern by Kate Clanchy
1997

Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The (movie tie-in) by Rhidian Brook
1997

Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
1996

Truffle Beds by Katherine Pierpoint
1996

The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS by Simon Garfield
1995

The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
1995

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French
1995

The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians by Philip Marsden
1994

Looking for the Possible Dance by A. L. Kennedy
1994

Other lovers by Jackie Kay
1994

Bucket of Tongues by Duncan McLean
1993

Jella by Dea Birkett
1993

Out of the Rain by Glyn Maxwell
1993

But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer
1992

Householder by Gerard Woodward
1992

Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk
1992

Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories by Helen Simpson
1991

Honour Thy Father by Lesley Glaister
1991

The Other Occupant by Peter Benson
1991

Our Grandmothers' Drums by Mark Hudson
1990

The vision of Elena Silves : a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare
1990

The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden
1989

Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age 1780-1830 by Rupert Christiansen
1989

Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
1989

Land That Lost Its Heroes: How Argentina Lost the Falklands War by Jimmy Burns
1988

Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
1988

Whore Banquets by Matthew Kneale
1988

The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory
1987

Isaac Campion by Janni Howker
1987

The Lamberts : George, Constant & Kit by Andrew Motion
1987

Family Myths and Legends by Patricia Ferguson
1986

Frontiers: From the Arctic to the Aegean by Adam Nicolson
1986

Tongues of Flame by Tim Parks
1986

Dark Glasses by Blake Morrison
1985

Her Living Image by Jane Rogers
1985

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd
1984

The Polish Revolution: Solidarity by Timothy Garton Ash
1984

Keepers of the House by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
1983

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
1982

Lantern Lecture and Other Stories by Adam Mars-Jones
1982

The Healing Art by A. N. Wilson
1981

Hearts of Gold by Clive Sinclair
1981

Metroland by Julian Barnes
1981

Bomber command by Max Hastings
1980

The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
1980

Daughter of Jerusalem by Sara Maitland
1979

Jack and Jill by Helen Hodgman
1979

My Life Closed Twice by Nigel Williams
1978

State of Justice by Tom Paulin
1978

Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
1977

The Dead of Winter by Dominic Cooper
1976

First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
1976

The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
1974

Season in Abyssinia by Paul Strathern
1973

Terry Street by Douglas Dunn
1972

I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill
1971

The Knight and Chivalry by Richard Barber
1971

Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
1970

A Sweet, Sweet Summer by Jane Gaskell
1970

Several Perceptions by Angela Carter
1969

At the Jerusalem by Paul Bailey
1968

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
1968

The better half; the emancipation of the American woman by Andrew Sinclair
1967

Trawl by B. S. Johnson
1967

Tin Men by Michael Frayn
1966

Negatives by Peter Everett
1965

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré
1964

Time of Arrival, and Other Essays by Dan Jacobson
1964

Flight into Camden by David Storey
1963

The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
1962

Miguel Street by V. S. Naipaul
1961

The Hawk in the Rain: Poems by Ted Hughes
1960

Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
1959

In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming
1957

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
1955

Five by Doris Lessing
1954

Tomato Cain, and other stories by Nigel Kneale
1950

Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (Poetry) by Hamish Henderson
1949

A Journey to the Interior by p.h. newby
1948

Innocents: Variations on a Theme by A. L. Barker
1947
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