Somerset Maugham Award

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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 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 [1].

Since 1964, multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975, 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).

[edit] Full list of winners

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 Short Novels
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	Gabriel Josipovici
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—A Biography of the A40
	Ben Rice	Pobby And Dingan
2002	Charlotte Hobson	Black Earth City
	Marcel Theroux	The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase
2003	William Fiennes, author	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