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 ansees å være de beste forfatterne under 35 år som har utgitt en bok i det foregående året. Prisen ble innstiftet i 1947 av William Somerset Maugham og bærer hans navn. Prisen skal brukes på utenlandsreiser. Prispengene pr år er £12000. [1].

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).

Hele listen av vinnere

W. Somerset Maugham
som innstiftet prisen

Ian McEwan,
prisvinner i 1976

John le Carré,
prisvinner i 1964

Doris Lessing,
prisvinner i 1954

Årstall	Forfatter	Original boktittel	Norsk boktittel
2011	Miriam Gamble	The Squirrels Are Dead
	Alexandra Harris	Romantic Moderns
	Adam O’Riordan	In the Flesh
2010	Jacob Polley	Talk of the Town
	Helen Oyeyemi	White is for Witching
	Ben 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	Råhaitekster
	Nick Laird	On Purpose
	Gwendoline Riley	Joshua Spassky
	Adam Thirlwell	Miss Herbert
2007	Horatio Clare	Running For The Hills
	James Scudamore	The Amnesia Clinic
2006	Chris Cleave	Incendiary	Kjære Osama
	Zadie Smith	On Beauty	Om skjønnhet
	Owen 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 uekte
	Jon 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 Platt	Leadville—A Biography of the A40
	Ben Rice	Pobby And Dingan
2000	Bella Bathurst	The Lighthouse Stevensons
	Sarah Waters	Affinity	Sjelesøstre
1999	Andrea Ashworth	Once in a House on Fire	Ut av det brennende huset
	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
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 ambolt
1993	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 Benson	The Other Occupant
	Lesley Glaister	Honour Thy Father
	Helen Simpson	Four Bare Legs in a Bed
1990	Mark Hudson	Our Grandmothers' Drums
	Sam North	The Automatic Man
	Nicholas Shakespeare	The Vision of Elena Silves	Elena Silves' visjon
1989	Rupert Christiansen	Romantic Affinities
	Alan Hollinghurst	The Swimming Pool Library
	Deirdre Madden	The Birds of the Innocent Wood	I uskyldens skog
1988	Jimmy Burns	The Land That Lost Its Heroes
	Carol Ann Duffy	Selling Manhattan
	Matthew Kneale	Whore Banquets
1987	Stephen Gregory	The Cormorant
	Janni Howker	Isaac Campion
	Andrew Motion	The Lamberts
1986	Patricia Ferguson	Family Myths and Legends
	Adam Nicolson	Frontiers
	Tim Parks	Tongues of Flame
1985	Blake Morrison	Dark Glasses
	Jeremy Reed	By the Fisheries
	Jane Rogers	Her Living Image
1984	Peter Ackroyd	The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
	Timothy Garton Ash	The Polish Revolution: Solidarity
	Sean O'Brien	The Indoor Park
1983	Lisa St Aubin de Teran	Keepers of the House
1982	William Boyd	A Good Man in Africa
	Adam Mars-Jones	Lantern Lecture
1981	Julian Barnes	Metroland
	Clive Sinclair	Hearts of Gold
	A. N. Wilson	The Healing Art
1980	Max Hastings	Bomber Command
	Christopher Reid	Arcadia
	Humphrey Carpenter	The Inklings
1979	Helen Hodgman	Jack & Jill
	Sara Maitland	Daughter of Jerusalem
1978	Tom Paulin	A State of Justice
	Nigel Williams	My Life Closed Twice
1977	Richard Holmes	Shelley: The Pursuit
1976	Dominic Cooper	The Dead of Winter
	Ian McEwan	First Love, Last Rites	Kjærlighetens handlinger: og andre noveller
1975	Gabriel Josipovici
1974	Martin Amis	The Rachel Papers
1973	Peter Prince	Play Things
	Paul Strathern	A Season in Abyssinia
	Jonathan Street	Prudence Dictates
1972	Douglas Dunn	Terry Street
	Gillian Tindall	Fly Away Home
1971	Susan Hill	I'm the King of the Castle
	Richard Barber	The Knight and Chivalry
	Michael Hastings	Tussy Is Me
1970	Jane Gaskell	A Sweet Sweet Summer
	Piers Paul Read	Monk 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 kulden
1963	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 Jim
1954	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

Eksterne lenker

• The Somerset Maugham Award – a list of winners
• Somerset Maugham award (PDF)