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* [[Christopher Reid (writer)|Christopher Reid]] for ''Arcadia''
* [[Christopher Reid (writer)|Christopher Reid]] for ''Arcadia''
* [[Humphrey Carpenter]] for ''The Inklings''
* [[Humphrey Carpenter]] for ''The Inklings''

=== 1990s ===
=== 1990s ===
{| class="wikitable"
'''1999'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|+Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1990-1999<ref name=":1" />
* [[Andrea Ashworth]] for ''Once in a House on Fire''
!Year
* [[Paul Farley]] for ''The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You''
!Author
* [[Giles Foden]] for ''[[The Last King of Scotland]]''
!Title
* [[Jonathan Freedland]] for ''[[Bring Home the Revolution]]''
!Publisher
'''1998'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Rachel Cusk]] for ''[[The Country Life]]''
! rowspan="3" |[[1990 in literature|1990]]
* [[Jonathan Rendall]] for ''This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own''
|{{sortname|last=Hudson|first=Mark|link=Mark Hudson (author)}}
* [[Kate Summerscale]] for ''The Queen of Whale Cay''
|''Our Grandmothers' Drums''
* [[Robert Twigger]] for ''[[Angry White Pyjamas]]''
|[[Secker & Warburg]]
'''1997'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Rhidian Brook]] for ''The Testimony of Taliesin Jones''
|{{sortname|last=North|first=Sam}}
* [[Kate Clanchy]] for ''Slattern''
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Automatic Man|nolink=1}}''
* [[Philip Hensher]] for ''Kitchen Venom''
|[[Secker & Warburg]]
* [[Francis Spufford]] for ''I May Be Some Time''
|-
'''1996'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|{{sortname|last=Shakespeare|first=Nicholas}}
* [[Katherine Pierpoint]] for ''Truffle Beds''
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Vision of Elena Silves|nolink=1}}''
* [[Alan Warner]] for ''[[Morvern Callar]]''
|Collins Harvill
'''1995'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Patrick French]] for ''Younghusband''
! rowspan="3" |[[1991 in literature|1991]]
* [[Simon Garfield]] for ''The End of Innocence''
|{{sortname|last=Benson|first=Peter|link=Peter Benson (author)}}
* [[Kathleen Jamie]] for ''The Queen of Sheba''
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Other Occupant|nolink=1}}''
* [[Laura Thompson (British author)|Laura Thompson]] for ''The Dogs''
|[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]
'''1994'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Jackie Kay]] for ''Other Lovers''
|{{sortname|last=Glaister|first=Lesley}}
* [[A. L. Kennedy]] for ''Looking For the Possible Dance''
|''Honour Thy Father''
* [[Philip Marsden]] for ''Crossing Place''
|[[Secker & Warburg]]
'''1993'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Dea Birkett]] for ''Jella''
|{{sortname|last=Simpson|first=Helen|link=Helen Simpson (author)}}
* [[Duncan McLean (writer)|Duncan McLean]] for ''[[Bucket of Tongues]]''
|''Four Bare Legs in a Bed''
* [[Glyn Maxwell]] for ''Out of the Rain''
|[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]]
'''1992'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|-
* [[Geoff Dyer]] for ''[[But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz|But Beautiful]]''
! rowspan="3" |[[1992 in literature|1992]]
* [[Lawrence Norfolk]] for ''Lemprière's Dictionary''
|{{sortname|last=Dyer|first=Geoff}}
* [[Gerard Woodward]] for ''Householder''
|''[[But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz|But Beautiful]]''
'''1991'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|[[Jonathan Cape]]
* [[Peter Benson (author)|Peter Benson]] for ''The Other Occupant''
|-
* [[Lesley Glaister]] for ''Honour Thy Father''
|{{sortname|last=Norfolk|first=Lawrence}}
* [[Helen Simpson (author)|Helen Simpson]] for ''Four Bare Legs in a Bed''
|''Lempriere’s Dictionary''
'''1990'''<ref name="societyofauthors-2021-08-27-Maugham" />
|S. Stevenson
* [[Mark Hudson (author)|Mark Hudson]] for ''Our Grandmothers' Drums''
|-
* [[Sam North]] for ''The Automatic Man''
|{{sortname|last=Woodward|first=Gerard}}
* [[Nicholas Shakespeare]] for ''The Vision of Elena Silves''
|''Householder''
|[[Chatto & Windus]]
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[1993 in literature|1993]]
|{{sortname|last=Birkett|first=Dea}}
|''Jella''
|Gollancz
|-
|{{sortname|last=Maxwell|first=Glyn}}
|''Out of the Rain''
|[[Bloodaxe Books]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=McLean|first=Duncan|link=Duncan McLean (writer)}}
|''[[Bucket of Tongues]]''
|[[Secker & Warburg]]
|-
! rowspan="3" |[[1994 in literature|1994]]
|{{sortname|last=Kay|first=Jackie}}
|''Other Lovers''
|[[Bloodaxe Books]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Kennedy|first=A.L.}}
|''Looking for the Possible Dance''
|[[Secker & Warburg]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Marsden|first=Philip}}
|''Crossing Place''
|[[HarperCollins]]
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[1995 in literature|1995]]
|{{sortname|last=French|first=Patrick}}
|''Younghusband''
|[[HarperCollins]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Garfield|first=Simon}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=End of Innocence|nolink=1}}''
|[[Faber and Faber]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Jamie|first=Kathleen}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Queen of Sheba|nolink=1}}''
|[[Bloodaxe Books]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Thompson|first=Laura|link=Laura Thompson (British author)}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Dogs|nolink=1}}''
|[[Chatto & Windus]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[1996 in literature|1996]]
|{{sortname|last=Pierpoint|first=Katherine}}
|''Truffle Beds''
|[[Faber and Faber]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Warner|first=Alan}}
|''[[Morvern Callar]]''
|[[Vintage Books|Vintage]]
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[1997 in literature|1997]]
|{{sortname|last=Brook|first=Rhidian}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Testimony of Taliesin Jones|nolink=1}}''
|Flamingo
|-
|{{sortname|last=Clanchy|first=Kate}}
|''Slattern''
|[[Chatto & Windus]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Hensher|first=Philip}}
|''Kitchen Venom''
|[[Hamish Hamilton]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Spufford|first=Francis}}
|''I May Be Some Time''
|[[Faber and Faber|Faber & Faber]]
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[1998 in literature|1998]]
|{{sortname|last=Cusk|first=Rachel}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Country Life}}''
|[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Rendall|first=Jonathan}}
|''This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own''
|[[Faber and Faber|Faber & Faber]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Summerscale|first=Kate}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Queen of Whale Cay|nolink=1}}''
|[[Fourth Estate (imprint)|Fourth Estate]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Twigger|first=Robert}}
|''[[Angry White Pyjamas]]''
|[[Indigo Publications|Indigo]]
|-
! rowspan="4" |[[1999 in literature|1999]]
|{{sortname|last=Ashworth|first=Andrea}}
|''[[Once in a House on Fire|Once In a House On Fire]]''
|[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Farley|first=Paul}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Boy from the Chemist Is Here To See You|nolink=1}}''
|[[Picador (imprint)|Picador]], [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Foden|first=Giles}}
|''{{sortname|1=The|2=Last King of Scotland}}''
|[[Faber and Faber|Faber & Faber]]
|-
|{{sortname|last=Freedland|first=Jonathan}}
|''[[Bring Home the Revolution]]''
|[[Fourth Estate (imprint)|Fourth Estate]]

|}


=== 2000s ===
=== 2000s ===

Revision as of 23:49, 9 February 2023

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 year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry.[1]

Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given.[2]

List of winners

1940s

1949[3]

1948[3]

1947[3]

1950s

1959[3]

1958[3]

1957[3]

1956[3]

1955[3]

1954[3]

1953[3]

1952[3]

1951[3]

1950[3]

1960s

1969[3]

1968[3]

1967[3]

1966[3]

1965[3]

1964[3]

1963[3]

1962[3]

1961[3]

1960[3]

1970s

1979[3]

1978[3]

1977[3]

1976[3]

1975[3]

  • No Award

1974[3]

1973[3]

1972[3]

1971[3]

1970[3]

1980s

1989[3]

1988[3]

1987[3]

1986[3]

1985[3]

1984[3]

1983[3]

1982[3]

1981[3]

1980[3]

1990s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 1990-1999[4]
Year Author Title Publisher
1990 Mark Hudson Our Grandmothers' Drums Secker & Warburg
Sam North The Automatic Man Secker & Warburg
Nicholas Shakespeare The Vision of Elena Silves Collins Harvill
1991 Peter Benson The Other Occupant Macmillan
Lesley Glaister Honour Thy Father Secker & Warburg
Helen Simpson Four Bare Legs in a Bed Heinemann
1992 Geoff Dyer But Beautiful Jonathan Cape
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
Duncan McLean Bucket of Tongues Secker & Warburg
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
Simon Garfield The End of Innocence Faber and Faber
Kathleen Jamie The Queen of Sheba Bloodaxe Books
Laura Thompson The Dogs Chatto & Windus
1996 Katherine Pierpoint Truffle Beds Faber and Faber
Alan Warner Morvern Callar Vintage
1997 Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones Flamingo
Kate Clanchy Slattern Chatto & Windus
Philip Hensher Kitchen Venom Hamish Hamilton
Francis Spufford I May Be Some Time Faber & Faber
1998 Rachel Cusk The Country Life Picador, Macmillan
Jonathan Rendall This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own Faber & 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 & Faber
Jonathan Freedland Bring Home the Revolution Fourth Estate

2000s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 2000-2009[4]
Year Author Title Publisher
2000 Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons HarperCollins
Sarah Waters Affinity Virago Press
2001 Edward Platt Leadville Picador, Macmillan
Ben Rice Pobby and Dingan Jonathan Cape
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
Jon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things Bloomsbury
2004 Mark Blayney Two Kinds of Silence Manuscript Publishing
Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind Granta
Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem Picador, Macmillan
2005 Justin Hill Passing Under Heaven Abacus
Maggie O’Farrell The Distance Between Us Review
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
James Scudamore The Amnesia Clinic Harvill Secker
2008 Steven Hall The Raw Shark Texts Canongate Books
Nick Laird On Purpose Faber and Faber
Gwendoline Riley Joshua Spassky Cape
Adam Thirlwell Miss Herbert (US title: The Delighted States) Cape
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
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

2010s

Somerset Maugham Award winners, 2010-2019[4]
Year Author Title Publisher Prize
2010 Ben Wilson What Price Liberty? Faber and Faber £2,000
Helen Oyeyemi White is for Witching Picador £3,000
Jacob Polley Talk of the Town Picador £5,000
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
2012 No award given
2013 Ned Beauman The Teleportation Accident Sceptre £2,500
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
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
Liz Berry Black Country Chatto & Windus £2,500
Ben Brooks Lolito Canongate Books £2,500
Zoe Pilger Eat My Heart Out Serpent’s Tail £2,500
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
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
Melissa Lee-Houghton Sunshine Penned in the Margins £5,000
Martin MacInnes Infinite Ground Atlantic Books £5,000
2018 Kayo Chingonyi Kumukanda Chatto Poetry £5,250
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
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 [5]
2022 Stephanie Sy-Quia Amnion Granta, Granta Poetry [6]
Tice Cin Keeping the House And Other Stories [6]
Lucia Osborne-Crowley My Body Keeps Your Secrets Indigo Press [6]
Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water Penguin Random House/Viking Press [6]
Maia Elsner Overrun by Wild Boars Flipped Eye Publishing [6]

References

  1. ^ "The Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Library Thing. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq "Previous winners of the Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors' Awards. The Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Somerset Maugham Awards". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Graeme Armstrong". Blake Friedmann. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
  6. ^ 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.
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