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to fund a period of travel in the

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. The award, named after the English

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E. M. Forster, is administered by the

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. Academy members nominate authors and winners are selected by a rotating committee.

Past winners

* 1972 – Frank Tuohy * 1973 – Margaret Drabble * 1974 – Paul Bailey * 1975 –

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

* 1976 – Jon Stallworthy * 1977 – David Cook * 1979 –

Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storytelling, s ...

* 1982 – F. T. Prince * 1984 – Humphrey Carpenter * 1986 –

Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with ''The Sense of an Ending'', having been shortlisted three times previously with ''Flaubert's Parrot'', ''England, England'', and ''Arthu ...

* 1988 – Blake Morrison * 1989 – A. N. Wilson * 1990 – Jeanette Winterson * 1991 – Alan Hollinghurst * 1992 – Timothy Mo * 1993 – Sean O'Brien * 1994 – Janice Galloway * 1995 –

Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín ( , ; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, ''The South (novel), The South'', was published in 1990. ''The Blackwater Lightship'' was short ...

* 1996 – Jim Crace * 1997 – Glyn Maxwell * 1998 – Kate Atkinson * 1999 –

Nick Hornby Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer. He is best known for his memoir '' Fever Pitch'' (1992) and novels ''High Fidelity'' and '' About a Boy'', all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequen ...

* 2000 –

Carol Ann Duffy Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She wa ...

* 2001 – Marina Carr * 2002 – Helen Simpson * 2003 – Andrew O'Hagan * 2004 –

Robin Robertson Robin Robertson (born in 1955) is a Scottish poet. Biography Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and War ...

* 2005 – Dennis O'Driscoll * 2006 – Geoff Dyer * 2007 – Jez Butterworth * 2008 – John Lanchester * 2009 – Paul Farley * 2010 – Dan Rhodes * 2011 – Rachel Seiffert * 2012 – David Mitchell * 2013 – Adam Foulds * 2014 – Sarah Hall * 2015 – Adam Thirlwell * 2016 – Sinéad Morrissey * 2017 – Robert MacFarlane * 2018 –

Jon McGregor Jon McGregor (born 1976) is a British novelist and short story writer. In 2002, his debut novel, first novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, making him then the youngest-ever contender. His second and fourth novels were longlisted for the ...

* 2019 –

Sally Rooney Sally Rooney (born 20 February 1991) is an Irish author and screenwriter. She has published four novels: ''Conversations with Friends'' (2017), ''Normal People'' (2018), ''Beautiful World, Where Are You'' (2021), and ''Intermezzo (novel), Interm ...

* 2020 – Stephen Sexton * 2022 – Sara Baume * 2022 – Lucy Caldwell

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