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Somerset Maugham Awards
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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 awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.
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| Abi Curtis | | The Glass Delusion |
2013
| Adam Foulds | | The Broken Word |
2009
| Adam Mars-Jones | | Lantern Lecture |
1982
| Adam Nicolson | | Frontiers |
1986
| Adam O'Riordan | | In The Flesh |
2011
| Adam Thirlwell | | Miss Herbert |
2008
| A. L. Barker | | Innocents |
1947
| Alexandra Harris | | Romantic Moderns |
2011
| Alan Hollinghurst | | The Swimming Pool Library |
1989
| Alice Albania | | Empires Of The Indus |
2009
| A. L. Kennedy | | Looking For the Possible Dance |
1994
| Alan Warner | | Morvern Callar |
1996
| Amy Sackville | | Orkney |
2014
| Andrea Ashworth | | Once in a House on Fire |
1999
| Andrew McMillan | | Physical |
2016
| Andrew Motion | | The Lamberts |
1987
| Andrew Sinclair | | The Better Half |
1967
| Angela Carter | | Several Perceptions |
1969
| A. N. Wilson | | The Healing Art |
1981
| Bella Bathurst | | The Lighthouse Stevensons |
2000
| Ben Brooks | | Lolito |
2015
| Ben Rice | | Pobby And Dingan |
2001
| Ben Wilson | | What Price Liberty? |
2010
| Blake Morrison | | Dark Glasses |
1985
| B. S. Johnson | | Trawl |
1967
| Carol Ann Duffy | | Selling Manhattan |
1988
| Charlotte Hobson | | Black Earth City |
2002
| Charlotte Mendelson | | Daughters of Jerusalem |
2004
| Chris Cleave | | Incendiary |
2006
| Christopher Reid | | Arcadia |
1980
| Clive Sinclair | | Hearts of Gold |
1981
| Daisy Hay | | Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance |
2016
| Daisy Hildyard | | Hunters In The Snow Grass |
2014
| David Storey | | Flight Into Camden |
1963
| Dea Birkett | | Jella |
1993
| Deirdre Madden | | The Birds of the Innocent Wood |
1989
| Dan Jacobson | | Time of Arrival |
1964
| Dominic Cooper | | The Dead of Winter |
1976
| Doris Lessing | | Five Short Novels |
1954
| Douglas Dunn | | Terry Street |
1972
| Duncan McLean | | Bucket of Tongues |
1993
| Edmund Gordon | | The Invention of Angela Carter |
2017
| Edward Platt | | Leadville—A Biography of the A40 |
2001
| Elizabeth Jennings | | A Way of Looking |
1956
| Emyr Humphreys | | Hear and Forgive |
1953
| Fiona Mosley | | Elmet |
2018
| Francis King | | The Dividing Stream |
1952
| Francis Spufford | | I May Be Some Time |
1997
| Geoff Dyer | | But Beautiful |
1992
| George Lamming | | In the Castle of My Skin |
1957
| Gerard Woodward | | Householder |
1992
| Giles Foden | | The Last King of Scotland |
1999
| Gillian Tindall | | Fly Away Home |
1972
| Glyn Maxwell | | Out of the Rain |
1993
| Gwendoline Riley | | Joshua Spassky |
2008
| Hamish Henderson | | Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica |
1949
| Hari Kunzru | | The Impressionist |
2003
| Helen Hodgman | | Jack & Jill |
1979
| Helen Oyeyemi | | White Is For Witching |
2010
| Helen Simpson | | Four Bare Legs in a Bed |
1991
| Helen Walsh | | Once Upon A Time In England |
2009
| Henry Hitchings | | The Secret Life Of Words |
2009
| Horatio Clare | | Running For The Hills |
2007
| Hugh Thomas | | The Spanish Civil War |
1962
| Humphrey Carpenter | | The Inklings |
1980
| Ian McEwan | | First Love, Last Rites |
1976
| Jackie Kay | | Other Lovers |
1994
| Jack Underwood | | Happiness |
2016
| Jacob Polley | | Talk Of The Town |
2010
| James Scudamore | | The Amnesia Clinic |
2007
| Jane Gaskell | | A Sweet Sweet Summer |
1970
| Jane Rogers | | Her Living Image |
1985
| Janni Howker | | Isaac Campion |
1987
| Jeremy Reed | | By the Fisheries |
1985
| Jessie Greengrass | | An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk According To One Who Saw It |
2016
| Jimmy Burns | | The Land That Lost Its Heroes |
1988
| Joe Stretch | | The Adult |
2013
| John Le Carré | | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
1964
| John Wain | | Preliminary Essays |
1958
| Jonathan Beckman | | How To Ruin A Queen |
2015
| Jonathan Freedland | | Bring Home the Revolution |
1999
| Jonathan Rendall | | This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own |
1998
| Jonathan Street | | Prudence Dictates |
1973
| Jon McGregor | | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things |
2003
| Julian Barnes | | Metroland |
1981
| Julian Mitchell | | The White Father |
1966
| Justin Hill | | Passing Under Heaven |
2005
| Kate Clanchy | | Slattern |
1997
| Kate Summerscale | | The Queen of Whale Cay |
1998
| Katherine Pierpoint | | Truffle Beds |
1996
| Kathleen Jamie | | The Queen of Sheba |
1995
| Kayo Chingonyi | | Kumukanda |
2018
| Kingsley Amis | | Lucky Jim |
1955
| Laura Thompson | | The Dogs |
1995
| Lawrence Norfolk | | Lemprière's Dictionary |
1992
| Lesley Glaister | | Honour Thy Father |
1991
| Lisa St Aubin De Teran | | Keepers of the House |
1983
| Liz Berry | | Black Country |
2015
| Lucy Wood | | Diving Belles |
2013
| Maggie O'Farrell | | The Distance Between Us |
2005
| Marcel Theroux | | The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a Paper Chase |
2002
| Mark Blayney | | Two Kinds of Silence |
2004
| Mark Hudson | | Our Grandmothers' Drums |
1990
| Martin Amis | | The Rachel Papers |
1974
| Martin MacInnes | | Infinite Ground |
2017
| Matthew Kneale | | Whore Banquets |
1988
| Max Hastings | | Bomber Command |
1980
| Melissa Lee-Houghton | | Sunshine |
2017
| Michael Frayn | | The Tin Men |
1966
| Michael Hastings | | Tussy is Me |
1971
| Miriam Gamble | | The Squirrels Are Dead |
2011
| Miriam Nash | | All the Prayers in the House |
2018
| Nadifa Mohamed | | The Orchard Of Lost Souls |
2014
| Ned Beauman | | The Teleportation Accident |
2013
| Nicholas Shakespeare | | The Vision of Elena Silves |
1990
| Nick Laird | | On Purpose |
2008
| Nigel Kneale | | Tomato Cain & Other Stories |
1950
| Nigel Williams | | My Life Closed Twice |
1978
| Owen Sheers | | Skirrid Hill |
2006
| Patricia Ferguson | | Family Myths and Legends |
1986
| Patrick French | | Younghusband |
1995
| Paul Bailey | | At The Jerusalem |
1968
| Paul Farley | | The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You |
1999
| Paul Strathern | | A Season in Abyssinia |
1973
| Peter Ackroyd | | The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde |
1984
| Peter Benson | | The Other Occupant |
1991
| Peter Everett | | Negatives |
1965
| Peter Prince | | Play Things |
1973
| Philip Hensher | | Kitchen Venom |
1997
| Philip Marsden | | Crossing Place |
1994
| P. H. Newby | | Journey to the Interior |
1948
| Piers Paul Read | | Monk Dawson |
1970
| Rachel Cusk | | The Country Life |
1998
| Rhidian Brook | | The Testimony of Taliesin Jones |
1997
| Richard Barber | | The Knight and Chivalry |
1971
| Richard Holmes | | Shelley: The Pursuit |
1977
| Robert Macfarlane | | Mountains of the Mind |
2004
| Robert Twigger | | Angry White Pyjamas |
1998
| Rodge Glass | | Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography |
2009
| Roland Camberton | | Scamp |
1951
| Rupert Christiansen | | Romantic Affinities |
1989
| Sam North | | The Automatic Man |
1990
| Sarah Waters | | Affinity |
2000
| Sara Maitland | | Daughter of Jerusalem |
1979
| Seamus Heaney | | Death of a Naturalist |
1968
| Sean O'Brien | | The Indoor Park |
1984
| Simon Garfield | | The End of Innocence |
1995
| Stephen Gregory | | The Cormorant |
1987
| Steven Hall | | The Raw Shark Texts |
2008
| Susan Hill | | I'm the King of the Castle |
1971
| Ted Hughes | | The Hawk in the Rain |
1960
| Thomas Leveritt | | The Exchange Rate Between Love And Money |
2009
| Thomas Morris | | We Don't Know What We're Doing |
2016
| Thom Gunn | | A Sense Of Movement |
1959
| Timothy Garton Ash | | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity |
1984
| Tim Parks | | Tongues of Flame |
1986
| Tom Paulin | | A State of Justice |
1978
| V. S. Naipaul | | Miguel Street |
1961
| William Boyd | | A Good Man in Africa |
1982
| William Fiennes | | The Snow Geese |
2003
| Zadie Smith | | On Beauty |
2006
| Zoe Pilger | | Eat My Heart Out |
2015
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