Somerset Maugham Award

The Somerset Maugham Award er en britisk litteraturpris som deles ut i mai hvert år av Society of Authors. Den blir tildelt den eller de som anses å være de beste forfatterne under 35 år som har utgitt en bok i det foregående året. Prisen ble innstiftet i  av William Somerset Maugham og bærer hans navn. Prisen skal brukes på utenlandsreiser. Prispengene pr år er £12000. 

Siden 1964, har prisen vanligvis blitt delt mellom flere vinnere i det enkelte år. I 1975 ble prisen ikke delt ut. Prisen er to ganger blitt gitt til sønnen av en tidligere vinner: Kingsley Amis (vinner i 1955) var far til Martin Amis (1974), og Nigel Kneale (1950) far til Matthew Kneale (1988).

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 Årstall  Forfatter  Original boktittel  Norsk boktittel2019  Raymond Antrobus  The Perseverance Damian Le Bas The Stopping Places Phoebe Power  Shrines of Upper Austria Nell Stevens Mrs Gaskell and Me 2018  Kayo Chingonyi Kumukanda Fiona Mozley Elmet Miriam Nash All The Prayers in the House 2017  Edmund Gordon  The Invention of Angela Carter Melissa Lee-Houghton Sunshine Martin MacInnes Infinite Ground 2016  Jessie Greengrass An Account Of The Decline Of The Great Auk, According To One Who Saw It Daisy Hay Mr & Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance Andrew McMillan Physical Thomas Morris We Don't Know What We're Doing Jack Underwood Happiness 2015  Jonathan Beckman  How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne Liz Berry Black Country Ben Brooks  Lolito Zoe Pilger Eat My Heart Out 2014  Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard of Lost Souls Daisy Hildyard Hunters in the Snow Grass Amy Sackville Orkney 2013  Ned Beauman  The Teleportation Accident Abi Curtis The Glass Delusion Joe Stretch The Adult Lucy Wood Diving Belles 2012 Ikke noen pris utdelt2011  Miriam Gamble The Squirrels Are DeadAlexandra HarrisRomantic ModernsAdam O’RiordanIn the Flesh2010  Jacob Polley  Talk of the Town Helen Oyeyemi White is for WitchingBen Wilson What Price Liberty?2009 Adam Foulds The Broken Word Alice Albinia Empires of the Indus Rodge Glass Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography Henry Hitchings The Secret Life of Words Thomas Leveritt The Exchange Rate Between Love and Money Helen Walsh Once Upon a Time in England 2008 Steven Hall  The Raw Shark Texts  RåhaiteksterNick Laird  On Purpose Gwendoline Riley  Joshua Spassky Adam Thirlwell Miss Herbert 2007 Horatio ClareRunning For The Hills James ScudamoreThe Amnesia Clinic 2006 Chris Cleave Incendiary  Kjære OsamaZadie Smith On Beauty  Om skjønnhetOwen Sheers Skirrid Hill 2005 Justin Hill Passing Under Heaven Maggie O'Farrell The Distance Between Us 2004 Charlotte Mendelson Daughters of Jerusalem Mark Blayney Two Kinds of Silence Robert Macfarlane Mountains of the Mind 2003 William Fiennes The Snow Geese Hari Kunzru The Impressionist  Den uekteJon McGregor If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things 2002 Charlotte Hobson Black Earth City Marcel Theroux The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase 2001 Edward PlattLeadville—A Biography of the A40 Ben Rice Pobby And Dingan 2000 Bella BathurstThe Lighthouse Stevensons Sarah WatersAffinity  Sjelesøstre1999 Andrea Ashworth Once in a House on Fire  Ut av det brennende husetPaul Farley The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You Giles Foden The Last King of Scotland Jonathan Freedland Bring Home the Revolution 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 1997 Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones Kate Clanchy Slattern Philip Hensher Kitchen Venom Francis Spufford I May Be Some Time 1996 Katherine Pierpoint Truffle Beds Alan Warner Morvern Callar 1995 Patrick French Younghusband Simon Garfield The End of Innocence Kathleen Jamie The Queen of Sheba Laura Thompson The Dogs 1994 Jackie Kay Other Lovers A. L. Kennedy Looking For the Possible Dance Philip Marsden Crossing Place  Armenia : mellom hammer og ambolt1993 Dea Birkett Jella Duncan McLean Bucket of Tongues Glyn Maxwell Out of the Rain 1992 Geoff Dyer But Beautiful Lawrence Norfolk Lemprière's Dictionary Gerard Woodward Householder 1991  Peter BensonThe Other Occupant Lesley GlaisterHonour Thy Father Helen SimpsonFour Bare Legs in a Bed 1990  Mark Hudson  Our Grandmothers' Drums Sam NorthThe Automatic Man Nicholas ShakespeareThe Vision of Elena Silves  Elena Silves' visjon1989  Rupert ChristiansenRomantic Affinities Alan HollinghurstThe Swimming Pool Library Deirdre MaddenThe Birds of the Innocent Wood  I uskyldens skog1988  Jimmy Burns  The Land That Lost Its Heroes Carol Ann DuffySelling Manhattan Matthew KnealeWhore Banquets 1987  Stephen Gregory The Cormorant Janni HowkerIsaac Campion Andrew MotionThe Lamberts 1986  Patricia Ferguson  Family Myths and Legends Adam NicolsonFrontiers Tim ParksTongues of Flame 1985  Blake Morrison  Dark Glasses Jeremy ReedBy the Fisheries Jane RogersHer Living Image 1984  Peter Ackroyd  The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde Timothy Garton AshThe Polish Revolution: Solidarity Sean O'BrienThe Indoor Park 1983  Lisa St Aubin de Teran  Keepers of the House 1982  William BoydA Good Man in Africa Adam Mars-JonesLantern Lecture 1981  Julian BarnesMetroland Clive SinclairHearts of Gold A. N. WilsonThe Healing Art 1980  Max HastingsBomber Command Christopher ReidArcadia Humphrey CarpenterThe Inklings 1979  Helen HodgmanJack & Jill Sara MaitlandDaughter of Jerusalem 1978  Tom PaulinA State of Justice Nigel WilliamsMy Life Closed Twice 1977  Richard Holmes  Shelley: The Pursuit 1976  Dominic Cooper  The Dead of Winter Ian McEwanFirst Love, Last Rites  Kjærlighetens handlinger: og andre noveller1975  Gabriel Josipovici 1974  Martin Amis  The Rachel Papers 1973  Peter PrincePlay Things Paul StrathernA Season in Abyssinia Jonathan StreetPrudence Dictates 1972  Douglas DunnTerry Street Gillian TindallFly Away Home 1971  Susan HillI'm the King of the Castle Richard BarberThe Knight and Chivalry Michael Hastings Tussy Is Me 1970  Jane GaskellA Sweet Sweet Summer Piers Paul ReadMonk Dawson 1969  Angela Carter  Several Perceptions 1968 Paul Bailey At The Jerusalem Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist 1967  B. S. Johnson Trawl Andrew Sinclair The Better Half 1966 Michael Frayn The Tin Men Julian Mitchell The White Father 1965  Peter Everett  Negatives 1964  Dan Jacobson  Time of Arrival John le Carré The Spy Who Came In From the Cold  Spionen som kom inn fra kulden1963  David Storey  Flight Into Camden 1962  Hugh Thomas The Spanish Civil War 1961  V. S. Naipaul  Miguel Street 1960  Ted Hughes  The Hawk in the Rain 1959  Thom Gunn  A Sense Of Movement 1958  John Wain  Preliminary Essays 1957  George Lamming  In the Castle of My Skin 1956  Elizabeth Jennings  A Way of Looking 1955  Kingsley Amis  Lucky Jim  Lykkelige Jim1954  Doris Lessing  Five Short Novels 1953  Emyr Humphreys  Hear and Forgive 1952  Francis King  The Dividing Stream 1951  Roland Camberton  Scamp 1950  Nigel Kneale  Tomato Cain & Other Stories 1949  Hamish Henderson  Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica 1948  P. H. Newby  Journey to the Interior 1947  A. L. Barker  Innocents 

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Kategori:Utmerkelser etablert i 1947
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