Somerset Maugham Award

Given for a work of fiction or non-fiction or poetry by a writer under the age of 35.
2023
  • Travis Alabanza for None of the Above
  • Sussie Anie for To Fill a Yellow House
  • Mya-Rose Craig for Birdgirl
  • Jay Gao for Imperium
  • Gurnaik Johal for We Move
  • Moses McKenzie for An Olive Grove in Ends
2022
  • Caleb Azumah Nelson for Open Water
  • Tice Cin for Keeping The House
  • Maia Elsner for Overrun by Overrun by Wild Boars
  • Lucia Osbourne-Crowley for My Body Keeps Your Secret
  • Stephanie Sy-Quia for Amnion
2021
  • Lamorna Ash for Dark, Salt, Clear
  • Isabelle Baafi for Ripe
  • Akeem Balogun for The Storm
  • Graeme Armstrong for The Young Team
2020
  • Alex Allison for The Art of the Body
  • Oliver Soden for Michael Tippet: The Biography
  • Roseanne Watt for Moder Dy
  • Amrou Al-Kadhi for My Life as a Unicorn
2019
  • Raymond Antrobus for The Perseverance
  • Damian Le Bas for The Stopping Places 0
  • Phoebe Power for Shrines of Upper Austria
  • Nell Stevens for Mrs Gaskell and Me
2018
  • Kayo Chingonyi for Kumukanda
  • Fiona Mozley for Elmet
  • Miriam Nash for All the Prayers in the House
2017
  • Edmund Gordon for The Invention of Angela Carter
  • Melissa Lee-Houghton for Sunshine
  • Martin MacInnes for Infinite Ground
2016
  • Jessie Greengrass for An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It
  • Daisy Hay for Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance
  • Andrew McMillan for Physical
  • Thomas Morris for We Don’t Know What We’re Doing
  • Jack Underwood for Happiness
2015
  • Jonathan Beckman for How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne
  • Liz Berry for Black Country
  • Ben Brooks for Lolito
  • Zoe Pilger for Eat My Heart Out
2014
  • Nadifa Mohamed for The Orchard of Lost Souls
  • Daisy Hildyard for Hunters in the Snow Glass Delusion
  • Amy Sackville for Orkney
2013
  • Ned Beauman for The Teleportation Accident
  • Abi Curtis for The Glass Delusion
  • Joe Stretch for The Adult
  • Lucy Wood for Diving Belles
2012
No award given.
2011
  • Miriam Gamble for The Squirrels Are Dead
  • Alexandra Harris for Romantic Moderns
  • Adam O’Riordan for In the Flesh
2010
  • Jacob Polley for Talk of the Town
  • Helen Oyeyemi for White is for Witching
  • Ben Wilson for What Price Liberty?
2009
  • Adam Foulds for The Broken Word (Winner)
  • Alice Albinia for Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
  • Rodge Glass for Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography
  • Henry Hitchings for The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
  • Thomas Leveritt for The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money
  • Helen Walsh for Once Upon a Time in England
2008
  • Gwendoline Riley for Joshua Spassky
  • Steven Hall for The Raw Shark Texts
  • Nick Laird for On Purpose
  • Adam Thirlwell for Miss Herbert
2007
  • Horatio Clare for Running to the Hills
  • James Scudamore for The Amnesia Clinic
2006
  • Chris Cleave for Incendiary
  • Owen Sheers for Skirrid Hill
  • Zadie Smith for On Beauty
2005
  • Justin Hill for Passing Under Heaven
  • Maggie O’Farrell for The Distance Between Us
2004
  • Charlotte Mendelson for Daughters of Jerusalem
  • Mark Blayney for Two Kinds of Silence
  • Robert Macfarlane for Mountains of the Mind
2003
  • Hari Kunzru for The Impressionist
  • William Fiennes for The Snow Geese
  • Jon McGregor for If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
2002
  • Charlotte Hobson for Black Earth City
  • Marcel Theroux for The Paperchase
2001
  • Edward Platt for Leadville
  • Ben Rice for Pobby and Dingan
2000
  • Bella Bathurst for The Lighthouse Stevensons
  • Sarah Waters for Affinity
1999
  • Andrea Ashworth for Once In a House On Fire
  • Paul Farley for The Boy from the Chemist Is Here To See You
  • Giles Foden for The Last King of Scotland
  • Jonathan Freedland for Bring Home the Revolution
1998
  • Rachel Cusk for The Country Life
  • Jonathan Rendall for This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own
  • Kate Summerscale for The Queen of Whale Cay
  • Robert Twigger for Angry White Pyjamas
1997
  • Rhidian Brook for The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
  • Kate Clanchy for Slattern
  • Philip Hensher for Kitchen Venom
  • Francis Spufford for I May Be Some Time
1996
1995
  • Patrick French for Younghusband
  • Simon Garfield for The End of Innocence
  • Kathleen Jamie for The Queen of Sheba)
  • Laura Thompson for The Dogs
1994
  • Jackie Kay for Other Lovers
  • A.L. Kennedy for Looking for the Possible Dance
  • Philip Marsden for Crossing Place
1993
  • Dea Birkett for Jella
  • Duncan McLean for Bucket of Tongues
  • Glyn Maxwell for Out of the Rain
1992
  • Geoff Dyer for But Beautiful
  • Lawrence Norfolk for Lempriere’s Dictionary
  • Gerard Woodward for Householder
1991
  • Peter Benson for The Other Occupant
  • Lesley Glaister for Honour Thy Father
  • Helen Simpson for Four Bare Legs in a Bed
1990
  • Mark Hudson for Our Grandmother’s Drums
  • Sam North for The Automatic Man
  • Nicholas Shakespeare for The Vision of Elena Silves
1989
  • Rupert Christiansen for Romantic Affinities
  • Alan Hollingshurst for The Swimming Pool Library
  • Deirdre Madden for The Birds of the Innocent Wood
1988
  • Jimmy Burns for The Land That Lost Its Heroes
  • Carol Ann Duffy for Selling Manhattan
  • Matthew Kneale for Whore Banquets
1987
  • Stephen Gregory for The Cormorant
  • Janni Howker for Isaac Campion
  • Andrew Motion for The Lambert
1986
  • Patricia Ferguson for Family Myths and Legends
  • Adam Nicolson for Frontiers
  • Tim Parks for Tongues of Flame
1985
  • Blake Morrison for Dark Glasses
  • Jeremy Reed for By the Fisheries
  • Jane Rogers for Her Living Image
1984
  • Peter Ackroyd for The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
  • Timothy Garton Ash for The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
  • Sean O’Brien for The Indoor Park
1983 
  • Lisa St Aubin de Teran for Keepers of the House
1982
  • William Boyd for A Good Man in Africa
  • Adam Mars-Jones for Lantern Lecture
1981
  • Julian Barnes for Metroland
  • Clive Sinclair for Hearts of Gold
  • A.N. Wilson for The Healing Art
1980
  • Max Hastings for Bomber Command
  • Christopher Reid for Arcadia
  • Humphrey Carpenter for The Inklings
1979
  • Helen Hodgman for Jack & Jill
  • Sara Maitland for Daughter of Jerusalem
1978
  • Tom Paulin for A State of Justice
  • Nigel Williams for My Life Closed Twice
1977 
  • Richard Holmes for Shelley: The Pursuit
1976
  • Dominic Cooper for The Dead of Winter
  • Ian McEwan for First Love, Last Rites
1975 
No Award
1974
  • Martin Amis for The Rachel Papers
1973
  • Peter Prince for Play Things
  • Paul Strathern for A Season in Abyssinia
  • Jonathan Street for Prudence Dictates
1972
  • Douglas Dunn for Terry Street
  • Gillian Tindall for Fly Away Home
1971
  • Susan Hill for I’m the King of the Castle 
  • Richard Barber for The Knight and Chivalry
  • Michael Hastings for Tussy Is Me
1970
  • Jane Gaskell for A Sweet, Sweet Summer
  • Piers Paul Read for Monk Dawson
1969 
  • Angela Carter for Several Perceptions
1968
1967
  • B.S. Johnson for Trawl
  • Andrew Sinclair for The Better Half
1966
  • Michael Frayn for The Tin Men
  • Julian Mitchell for The White Father
1965 
  • Peter Everett for Negatives
1964
1963
  • David Storey for Flight Into Camden
1962
  • Hugh Thomas for The Spanish Civil War
1961
  • V.S. Naipaul for Miguel Street
1960
  • Ted Hughes for The Hawk in the Rain
1959
  • Thom Gunn for A Sense of Movement 
1958
  • John Wain Preliminary for Essays
1957
  • George Lamming for In the Castle of my Skin
1956
  • Elizabeth Jennings for A Way of Looking
1955
  • Kingsley Amis for Lucky Jim
1954
  • Doris Lessing for Five Short Novels
1953
  • Emyr Humphreys for Hear and Forgive
1952
  • Francis King for The Dividing Stream
1951
  • Roland Camberton for Scamp 
1950
  • Nigel Kneale for Tomato Cain & Other Stories
1949
  • Hamish Henderson for Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica
1948
  • P.H. Newby for Journey to the Interior
1947
  • A.L. Barker for Innocents



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