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 näytä lisää 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. näytä vähemmän
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None of the Above (tekijä: Travis Alabanza)
2023
To Fill a Yellow House: A Novel (tekijä: Sussie Anie)
2023
Birdgirl (tekijä: Mya-Rose Craig)
2023
Imperium (tekijä: Jay Gao)
2023
We move (tekijä: Gurnaik Johal)
2023
An Olive Grove in Ends (tekijä: Moses McKenzie)
2023
Keeping the House (tekijä: Tice Cin)
2022
Open Water (tekijä: Caleb Azumah Nelson)
2022
My Body Keeps Your Secrets (tekijä: Lucia Osborne-Crowley Llb)
2022
The Young Team (tekijä: Graeme Armstrong)
2021
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town (tekijä: Lamorna Ash)
2021
The Storm (tekijä: Akeem Balogun)
2021
Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen (tekijä: Amrou Al-Kadhi)
2020
Michael Tippett: The Biography (tekijä: Oliver Soden)
2020
Moder Dy: Polygon New Poets (tekijä: Roseanne Watt)
2020
Perseverance (tekijä: Raymond Antrobus)
2019
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (tekijä: Damian Le Bas)
2019
Shrines of Upper Austria (tekijä: Phoebe Power)
2019
The Victorian and the Romantic: A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time (tekijä: Nell Stevens)
2019
Kumukanda (tekijä: Kayo Chingonyi)
2018
Elmet (tekijä: Fiona Mozley)
2018
All the prayers in the house (tekijä: Miriam Nash)
2018
The Invention of Angela Carter : A Biography (tekijä: Edmund Gordon)
2017
Sunshine (tekijä: Melissa Lee Houghton)
2017
Infinite Ground (tekijä: Martin MacInnes)
2017
An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it: A John Murray Original (tekijä: Jessie Greengrass)
2016
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance (tekijä: Daisy Hay)
2016
Physical (tekijä: Andrew McMillan)
2016
We Don't Know What We're Doing (tekijä: Thomas Morris)
2016
Happiness (tekijä: Jack Underwood)
2016
How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair (tekijä: Jonathan Beckman)
2015
Black Country (tekijä: Liz Berry)
2015
Lolito (tekijä: Ben Brooks)
2015
Eat My Heart Out (tekijä: Zoe Pilger)
2015
Hunters in the Snow (tekijä: Daisy Hildyard)
2014
The Orchard of Lost Souls (tekijä: Nadifa Mohamed)
2014
Orkney (tekijä: Amy Sackville)
2014
The Teleportation Accident (tekijä: Ned Beauman)
2013
Glass Delusion (Salt Modern Poets) (tekijä: Abi Curtis)
2013
The Adult (tekijä: Joe Stretch)
2013
Diving Belles (tekijä: Lucy Wood)
2013
The Squirrels are Dead (tekijä: Miriam Gamble)
2011
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (tekijä: Alexandra Harris)
2011
In the Flesh (tekijä: Adam O'Riordan)
2011
White Is for Witching (tekijä: Helen Oyeyemi)
2010
Talk of the Town (tekijä: Jacob Polley)
2010
What Price Liberty!: How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost (tekijä: Ben Wilson)
2010
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River (tekijä: Alice Albinia)
2009
The Broken Word (tekijä: Adam Foulds)
2009
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography (tekijä: Rodge Glass)
2009
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (tekijä: Henry Hitchings)
2009
The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money (tekijä: Thomas Leveritt)
2009
Englantilainen tragedia (tekijä: Helen Walsh)
2009
Haiteksti (tekijä: Steven Hall)
2008
On Purpose (tekijä: Nick Laird)
2008
Joshua Spassky (tekijä: Gwendoline Riley)
2008
The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by ... Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes (tekijä: Adam Thirlwell)
2008
Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales (tekijä: Horatio Clare)
2007
The Amnesia Clinic (tekijä: James Scudamore)
2007
Poikani ääni (tekijä: Chris Cleave)
2006
Skirrid Hill (tekijä: Owen Sheers)
2006
Kauneudesta (tekijä: Zadie Smith)
2006
Passing Under Heaven (tekijä: Justin Hill)
2005
The Distance Between Us (tekijä: Maggie O'Farrell)
2005
Two Kinds of Silence (tekijä: Mark Blayney)
2004
Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the Summit (tekijä: Robert Macfarlane)
2004
Daughters of Jerusalem (tekijä: Charlotte Mendelson)
2004
The Snow Geese (tekijä: William Fiennes)
2003
The Impressionist (tekijä: Hari Kunzru)
2003
Jos kukaan ei puhu siitä mikä on tärkeää (tekijä: Jon McGregor)
2003
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia (tekijä: Charlotte Hobson)
2002
The Paperchase (tekijä: Marcel Theroux)
2002
Leadville: A Biography of the A40 (tekijä: Edward Platt)
2001
Pobby and Dingan (tekijä: Ben Rice)
2001
Pobby and Dingan / Specks in the Sky (tekijä: Ben Rice)
2001
Affinity (tekijä: Sarah Waters)
2000
Once in a House on Fire (tekijä: Andrea Ashworth)
1999
The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You (tekijä: Paul Farley)
1999
The Last King of Scotland (tekijä: Giles Foden)
1999
Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic (tekijä: Jonathan Freedland)
1999
The Country Life (tekijä: Rachel Cusk)
1998
This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own: A Journey to the End of Boxing (tekijä: Jonathan Rendall)
1998
The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Water (tekijä: Kate Summerscale)
1998
Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police (tekijä: Robert Twigger)
1998
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (tekijä: Rhidian Brook)
1997
Slattern (tekijä: Kate Clanchy)
1997
Kitchen Venom (tekijä: Philip Hensher)
1997
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (tekijä: Francis Spufford)
1997
Truffle Beds (tekijä: Katherine Pierpoint)
1996
Morvern Callar (tekijä: Alan Warner)
1996
Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (tekijä: Patrick French)
1995
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (tekijä: Simon Garfield)
1995
Queen of Sheba (tekijä: Kathleen Jamie)
1995
Other Lovers (tekijä: Jackie Kay)
1994
Looking for the Possible Dance (tekijä: A. L. Kennedy)
1994
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians (tekijä: Philip Marsden)
1994
Jella (tekijä: Dea Birkett)
1993
Out of the Rain (tekijä: Glyn Maxwell)
1993
Bucket of Tongues (tekijä: Duncan McLean)
1993
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (tekijä: Geoff Dyer)
1992
Kabaalin kulta (tekijä: Lawrence Norfolk)
1992
Householder (tekijä: Gerard Woodward)
1992
The Other Occupant (tekijä: Peter Benson)
1991
Honour Thy Father (tekijä: Lesley Glaister)
1991
Four Bare Legs in a Bed (tekijä: Helen Simpson)
1991
Our Grandmothers' Drums (tekijä: Mark Hudson)
1990
The Vision of Elena Silves (tekijä: Nicholas Shakespeare)
1990
Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age 1780-1830 (tekijä: Rupert Christiansen)
1989
The Swimming-Pool Library (tekijä: Alan Hollinghurst)
1989
Birds of the Innocent Wood (tekijä: Deirdre Madden)
1989
Land That Lost Its Heroes: How Argentina Lost the Falklands War (tekijä: Jimmy Burns)
1988
Selling Manhattan (tekijä: Carol Ann Duffy)
1988
Whore Banquets (tekijä: Matthew Kneale)
1988
The Cormorant (tekijä: Stephen Gregory)
1987
Isaac Campion (tekijä: Janni Howker)
1987
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit (tekijä: Andrew Motion)
1987
Family Myths and Legends (tekijä: Patricia Ferguson)
1986
Frontiers: From the Arctic to the Aegean (tekijä: Adam Nicolson)
1986
Tongues of Flame (tekijä: Tim Parks)
1986
Dark Glasses (tekijä: Blake Morrison)
1985
Her Living Image (tekijä: Jane Rogers)
1985
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (tekijä: Peter Ackroyd)
1984
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (Third Edition) (tekijä: Timothy Garton Ash)
1984
Huoneen vartijat (tekijä: Lisa St. Aubin de Terán)
1983
Kelpo mies Afrikassa (tekijä: William Boyd)
1982
Lantern Lecture and Other Stories (tekijä: Adam Mars-Jones)
1982
Metroland (tekijä: Julian Barnes)
1981
Hearts of Gold (tekijä: Clive Sinclair)
1981
The Healing Art (tekijä: A. N. Wilson)
1981
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends (tekijä: Humphrey Carpenter)
1980
Bomber Command : The Myths and Reality of the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945 (tekijä: Max Hastings)
1980
Jack and Jill (tekijä: Helen Hodgman)
1979
Daughter of Jerusalem (tekijä: Sara Maitland)
1979
State of Justice (Faber paperbacks) (tekijä: Tom Paulin)
1978
My Life Closed Twice (tekijä: Nigel Williams)
1978
Shelley : the pursuit (tekijä: Richard Holmes)
1977
The Dead of Winter (tekijä: Dominic Cooper)
1976
First Love, Last Rites: Stories (tekijä: Ian McEwan)
1976
The Rachel Papers (tekijä: Martin Amis)
1974
Season in Abyssinia (tekijä: Paul Strathern)
1973
Terry Street (tekijä: Douglas Dunn)
1972
The Knight and Chivalry (tekijä: Richard Barber)
1971
I'm the King of the Castle (tekijä: Susan Hill)
1971
A Sweet, Sweet Summer (tekijä: Jane Gaskell)
1970
Monk Dawson (tekijä: Piers Paul Read)
1970
Several Perceptions (tekijä: Angela Carter)
1969
At the Jerusalem (tekijä: Paul Bailey)
1968
Death of a Naturalist (tekijä: Seamus Heaney)
1968
Trawl (tekijä: B. S. Johnson)
1967
The Emancipation of the American Woman (tekijä: Andrew Sinclair)
1967
The Tin Men (tekijä: Michael Frayn)
1966
The White Father (tekijä: Julian Mitchell)
1966
Negatives (tekijä: Peter Everett)
1965
Time of arrival and other essays (tekijä: Dan Jacobson)
1964
Mies kylmästä (tekijä: John le Carré)
1964
Flight into Camden (tekijä: David Storey)
1963
The Spanish Civil War (tekijä: Hugh Thomas)
1962
Miguel-kadun väkeä (tekijä: V. S. Naipaul)
1961
The Hawk in the Rain (tekijä: Ted Hughes)
1960
The Sense of Movement (tekijä: Thom Gunn)
1959
Preliminary Essays (tekijä: John Wain)
1958
In the Castle of My Skin (tekijä: George Lamming)
1957
A Way of Looking (tekijä: Elizabeth Jennings)
1956
Onnellinen Jim : romaani (tekijä: Kingsley Amis)
1955
Five (tekijä: Doris Lessing)
1954
Hear and forgive (tekijä: Emyr Humphreys)
1953
The Dividing Stream (tekijä: Francis King)
1952
Scamp (tekijä: Roland Camberton)
1951
Tomato Cain and other stories (tekijä: Nigel Kneale)
1950
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (tekijä: Hamish Henderson)
1949
A Journey to the Interior (tekijä: P. H. Newby)
1948
Innocents: Variations on a Theme (tekijä: A. L. Barker)
1947

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