The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the

Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. , it represents over 12,000 members and ass ...

. Set up by

William Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 30 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given.

List of winners

2020s

2022 * Stephanie Sy-Quia for ''Amnion'' (Granta, Granta Poetry) * Tice Cin for ''Keeping the House'' (And Other Stories) * Lucia Osborne-Crowley for ''My Body Keeps Your Secrets'' (Indigo Press) *

Caleb Azumah Nelson Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer. His 2021 debut novel, '' Open Water'', won the Costa Book Award for First Novel. Personal life Azumah Nelson grew up in and currently lives in southeast London ( Bellingham). ...

for ''Open Water'' (Penguin Random House/Viking) *

Maia Elsner Maia (; Ancient Greek: Μαῖα; also spelled Maie, ; la, Maia), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king of Olympus. Family Maia is the daugh ...

for ''Overrun by Wild Boars'' (Flipped Eye Publishing) 2021 * Lamorna Ash for ''Dark, Salt, Clear'' (Bloomsbury Publishing) * Isabelle Baafi for ''Ripe'' (Ignition Press) * Akeem Balogun for ''The Storm'' (Okapi Books) * Graeme Armstrong for ''The Young Team'' (Pan Macmillan, Picador) * * * * * * * * * 2020 * Alex Allison for ''The Art of the Body'' (Dialogue Books/

Little, Brown Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown (publisher), James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Ear ...

) * Oliver Soden for ''Michael Tippett: The Biography'' (

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/Orion) * Roseanne Watt for ''Moder Dy'' ( Birlinn/Polygon) *

Amrou Al-Kadhi Amrou Al-Kadhi (born 23 June 1990) is a British-Iraqi writer, drag performer, and filmmaker whose work primarily focuses on queer identity, cultural representation and racial politics. Al-Kadhi made a cameo appearance in the 2021 Sony's Spider-Ma ...

for ''Unicorn'' ( 4th Estate)

2010s

2019 *

Raymond Antrobus Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019 he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry.Damian Le Bas for ''The Stopping Places'' *

Phoebe Power Phoebe Power (1993) is a British poet, whose work, ''Shrines of Upper Austria'', won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Biography Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1993. She was named a Foyle Young Poet of the ...

for ''Shrines of Upper Austria'' *

Nell Stevens Nell Stevens (born 1985) is a British writer of memoirs and fiction. She is an assistant professor in the University of Warwick School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, where she teaches on the Warwick Writing Programme and list ...

for ''Mrs Gaskell and Me'' 2018 *

Kayo Chingonyi Kayo Chingonyi FRSL (born 1987) is a Zambian-British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, ''Kumukanda'' and ''A Blood Condition.'' He has also published two pamphlets, ''Some Bright Elegance'' (Salt, 2012) and ''The Colour ...

for ''Kumukanda'' *

Fiona Mozley Fiona Mozley (born 1988)''Vogue'' interview, 16 October 201Retrieved 24 May 2018./ref> is an English novelist and medievalist. Her debut novel, ''Elmet'', was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker prize. Life and literature Fiona Mozley was born ...

for '' Elmet'' *

Miriam Nash Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, ''Small Change'' (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, ''All the Prayers in the House'', (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was ...

for ''All the Prayers in the House'' 2017 * Edmund Gordon for ''The Invention of Angela Carter'' *

Melissa Lee-Houghton Melissa Lee-Houghton (born in 1982 in Wythenshawe) is an English poet, fiction writer, and essayist. Her 2016 poetry collection, ''Sunshine,'' won the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and Costa Book Award for P ...

for ''Sunshine'' *

Martin MacInnes Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

for ''Infinite Ground'' 2016 *

Jessie Greengrass Jessie Greengrass (born 1982) is a British author. She won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize for her debut short story collection. Education and career Greengrass studied philosophy in Cambridge and London and now liv ...

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'' *

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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 Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, ''Black Country'', was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including ''The Guardian''. E ...

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 Grass'' *

Amy Sackville Amy Sackville (born 1981) is a British writer whose debut novel '' The Still Point'' was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University, followed by an MPhil at Oxford's Exete ...

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 2011 *

Miriam Gamble Miriam Gamble (born 1980) is a poet who won the Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. She lives in Scotland and works as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Life and career Miriam Gamble was born in Brussel ...

for ''The Squirrels Are Dead'' * Alexandra Harris for ''Romantic Moderns'' *

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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?''

2000s

2009 * Adam Foulds for ''The Broken Word'' *

Alice Albinia Alice Albinia (born 1976) is an English journalist and author whose first book, '' Empires of the Indus'', won several awards. Albinia was born in London and read English Literature at Cambridge University and South Asian History at SOAS. In b ...

for ''Empires of the Indus'' *

Rodge Glass Rodge Glass (born 17 January 1978 in Cheshire) is a British writer. Biography Glass was born in Cheshire, Cheshire, England. He attended an "an Orthodox Jewish Primary School, an 11+ All Boys Grammar School, a Co-Ed Private School, a Monk-sponsor ...

for ''Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography'' *

Henry Hitchings Henry Hitchings (born 11 December 1974) is an author, reviewer and critic, specializing in narrative non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on language and cultural history. The second of his books, ''The Secret Life of Words: How English Beca ...

for ''The Secret Life of Words'' *

Thomas Leveritt Thomas Leveritt is an Anglo-American artist who works in various media. His roots are in figurative painting, for which he has won the Carroll Medal for Portraiture from the UK's Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and other painting awards from ...

for ''The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money'' * Helen Walsh for ''Once Upon a Time in England'' 2008 * Steven Hall for '' The Raw Shark Texts'' * Nick Laird for ''On Purpose'' * Gwendoline Riley for ''Joshua Spassky'' * Adam Thirlwell for ''Miss Herbert'' (US title: ''The Delighted States'') 2007 *

Horatio Clare Horatio Clare (born 1973) is an English author known for travel, memoir, nature and children's books. He worked at the BBC as a producer on '' Front Row'' (BBC Radio 4), ''Night Waves'' and ''The Verb'' (BBC Radio 3). Clare has written memoirs s ...

for ''Running For The Hills'' * James Scudamore for ''The Amnesia Clinic'' 2006 *

Chris Cleave Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist. Biography Cleave was born in London on May 14, 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied psychology. He lives in the ...

for '' Incendiary'' * Zadie Smith for '' On Beauty'' * Owen Sheers for ''Skirrid Hill'' 2005 * Justin Hill for ''Passing Under Heaven'' *

Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Her acclaimed first novel, '' After You'd Gone'', won the Betty Trask Award, and a later one, '' The Hand That First Held Mine'', the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She ha ...

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 * William Fiennes for ''The Snow Geese'' * Hari Kunzru for ''The Impressionist'' *

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

for '' If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things'' 2002 * Charlotte Hobson for ''Black Earth City'' * Marcel Theroux for '' The Paperchase'' 2001 *

Edward Platt Edward Cuthbert Platt (February 14, 1916 – March 19, 1974) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the Chief in the 1965–70 NBC/ CBS television series: ''Get Smart''. With his deep voice and mature appearance, he played an ...

for ''

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'' * Ben Rice for '' Pobby and Dingan'' 2000 * Bella Bathurst for ''The Lighthouse Stevensons'' *

Sarah Waters Sarah Ann Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as '' Tipping the Velvet'' and '' Fingersmith''. Life and education Early life Sa ...

for '' Affinity''

1990s

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 ''Bring Home the Revolution: The Case For a British Republic'' is a non-fiction book written by Jonathan Freedland and originally published in 1998 by Fourth Estate. Part travel book, part political and sociological examination of American societ ...

'' 1998 *

Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer. Childhood and education Cusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of h ...

for '' The Country Life'' * Jonathan Rendall for ''This Bloody Mary Is the Last Thing I Own'' *

Kate Summerscale Kate Summerscale (born 1965) is an English writer and journalist. Biography Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in jour ...

for ''The Queen of Whale Cay'' * Robert Twigger for '' Angry White Pyjamas'' 1997 *

Rhidian Brook Rhidian Brook (born 1964) is a Welsh novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster. Biography Brook was born in Tenby in 1964. He attended Churcher's College in Hampshire, leaving in 1982. His first novel, ''The Testimony Of Taliesin Jones'' (HarperCol ...

for ''The Testimony of Taliesin Jones'' *

Kate Clanchy Kate Clanchy MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher. Early life She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne). She was educated at Ge ...

for ''Slattern'' * Philip Hensher for ''Kitchen Venom'' *

Francis Spufford Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has seen him shift gradually from non-fiction to fiction. His first novel ''Golden Hill'' received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa ...

for ''I May Be Some Time'' 1996 *

Katherine Pierpoint Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book ''Truffle Beds'' which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Life and career Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. ...

for ''Truffle Beds'' * Alan Warner for '' Morvern Callar'' 1995 * Patrick French for ''Younghusband'' *

Simon Garfield Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960) is a British journalist and non-fiction author. Biography Garfield was born in London in 1960.Kathleen Jamie Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University ...

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 Geoff Dyer (born 5 June 1958) is an English author. He has written a number of novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Personal background Dyer was born and raised in Cheltenham, England, as the only child of a ...

for '' But Beautiful'' *

Lawrence Norfolk Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. Biography Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read Engli ...

for ''Lemprière'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 Grandmothers' Drums'' * Sam North for ''The Automatic Man'' * Nicholas Shakespeare for ''The Vision of Elena Silves''

1980s

1989 * Rupert Christiansen for ''Romantic Affinities'' * Alan Hollinghurst for '' The Swimming Pool Library'' *

Deirdre Madden Deirdre Madden (born 20 August 1960) is a novelist from Northern Ireland. Career Madden was born in Toomebridge, County Antrim and was educated at St Mary's Grammar School, Magherafelt. She proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and then to ...

for ''The Birds of the Innocent Wood'' 1988 *

Jimmy Burns Jimmy Burns (born February 27, 1943) is an American soul blues and electric blues guitarist, singing, singer and songwriter. Although he was born in the Mississippi Delta, Burns has spent nearly all his life in Chicago. His elder brother, Eddie ...

for ''The Land That Lost Its Heroes'' *

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, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...

for ''Selling Manhattan'' *

Matthew Kneale Matthew Kneale (born 24 November 1960) is a British writer. He is best known for his 2000 novel '' English Passengers''. Life Kneale was born on 24 November 1960 in London, the son of screenwriter Nigel Kneale, and the children's writer Judith ...

for ''Whore Banquets'' 1987 * Stephen Gregory for ''The Cormorant'' * Janni Howker for ''Isaac Campion'' * Andrew Motion for ''The Lamberts'' 1986 * Patricia Ferguson for ''Family Myths and Legends'' *

Adam Nicolson Adam Nicolson, (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is also the 5th Baron Carnock, but does not use the title. He is noted for his books ''Sea Room'' (about t ...

for ''Frontiers'' *

Tim Parks Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature. Career He is the author of eighteen novels (notably ''Europa'', which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997). His first ...

for ''Tongues of Flame'' 1985 * Blake Morrison for ''Dark Glasses'' *

Jeremy Reed Jeremy Thomas Reed (born June 15, 1981) is an American former professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Early life Reed graduated from Bonita High School in La Verne, California in 1999, and went on to play college basebal ...

for ''By the Fisheries'' * Jane Rogers for ''Her Living Image'' 1984 *

Peter Ackroyd Peter Ackroyd (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William ...

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 Lisa or LISA may refer to: People People with the mononym * Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA", Japanese singer and producer * Lisa Komine (born 1978), J ...

for '' Keepers of the House'' 1982 * William Boyd for ''

A Good Man in Africa ''A Good Man in Africa'' is a 1994 comedy-drama film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel ''A Good Man in Africa'' and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film starred Colin Friels, Sean Connery, John Lithgow, Joanne Whalley, Diana Rigg and Louis Gos ...

'' * 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 Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inkl ...

for ''The Inklings''

1970s

1979 * Helen Hodgman for ''Jack & Jill'' *

Sara Maitland Sara Maitland (born 27 February 1950) is a British writer of religious fantasy. A novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency. Life and career Sarah (later "Sara") Louise Maitland was born in London ...

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 Dominic Edward Cooper (born 2 June 1978) is an English actor known for his portrayal of comic book characters Jesse Custer on the AMC show ''Preacher'' (2016–2019) and young Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with appearances ...

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 Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, OBE (born 23 October 1942) is a Scottish poet, academic, and critic. He is Professor of English and Director of St Andrew's Scottish Studies Institute at St Andrew's University. Background Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Re ...

for ''Terry Street'' * Gillian Tindall for ''Fly Away Home'' 1971 *

Susan Hill Dame Susan Hill, Lady Wells, (born 5 February 1942) is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include ''The Woman in Black'', '' The Mist in the Mirror'', and '' I'm the King of the Castle'', for which she received t ...

for '' I'm the King of the Castle'' *

Richard Barber Richard William Barber FRSL FSA FRHistS (born 30 October 1941) is a British historian who has published several books about medieval history and literature. His book ''The Knight and Chivalry'', about the interplay between history and literat ...

for ''The Knight and Chivalry'' * Michael Hastings for ''Tussy Is Me'' 1970 * Jane Gaskell for ''A Sweet Sweet Summer'' *

Piers Paul Read Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, '' Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors'', later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read ...

for '' Monk Dawson''

1960s

1969 *

Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...

for '' Several Perceptions'' 1968 * Paul Bailey for ''At The Jerusalem'' * Seamus Heaney for '' Death of a Naturalist'' 1967 * B. S. Johnson for ''Trawl'' *

Andrew Sinclair Andrew Annandale Sinclair FRSL FRSA (21 January 1935 – 30 May 2019) was a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, filmmaker, and a publisher of classic and modern film scripts. He has been described as a "writer of extraordinary flu ...

for ''The Better Half'' 1966 *

Michael Frayn Michael Frayn, FRSL (; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce '' Noises Off'' and the dramas ''Copenhagen'' and ''Democracy''. His novels, such as '' Towards the End of the M ...

for '' The Tin Men'' * Julian Mitchell for ''The White Father'' 1965 * Peter Everett for ''Negatives'' 1964 *

Dan Jacobson Dan Jacobson (7 March 1929 – 12 June 2014) was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Early life and career Dan Jacobson was born 7 March 1929, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his p ...

for ''Time of Arrival'' *

John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...

for '' The Spy Who Came In From the Cold'' 1963 *

David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ''Saville''. He also won the MacMillan ...

for ''Flight Into Camden'' 1962 * Hugh Thomas for ''The Spanish Civil War'' 1961 *

V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienati ...

for '' Miguel Street'' 1960 *

Ted Hughes Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...

for ''The Hawk in the Rain''

1950s

1959 * Thom Gunn for ''A Sense Of Movement'' 1958 *

John Wain John Barrington Wain CBE (14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as " The Movement". He worked for most of his life as a freelance journalist and author, writing and re ...

for ''Preliminary Essays'' 1957 *

George Lamming George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for ''In the Castle of My Skin'', his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished v ...

for '' In the Castle of My Skin'' 1956 * Elizabeth Jennings for ''A Way of Looking'' 1955 *

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social a ...

for ''

Lucky Jim ''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctan ...

'' 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''

1940s

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''

References

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