The E. M. Forster Award is a $20,000 award given annually to an Irish or British writer 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 American Academy of Arts and Letters. Academy members nominate authors and winners are selected by a rotating committee.

Past winners

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

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

1975 *

Jon Stallworthy Jon Howie Stallworthy, (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) was a British literary critic and poet. He was Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000, and Professor Emeritus in retirement. He was also a Fellow of W ...

1976 * David Cook 1977 * Bruce Chatwin 1979 * F.T. Prince 1982 * Humphrey Carpenter 1984 *

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