Somerset Maugham Award
Il Somerset Maugham Award è un premio letterario britannico assegnato annualmente dal sindacato di scrittori denominato Society of Authors[1].
| Somerset Maugham Award | |
|---|---|
| Assegnato da | Society of Authors |
| Intitolato a | William Somerset Maugham |
| Paese | .svg){kind=small} Regno Unito
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| Anno inizio | 1947 |
| Sito web | www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham |
Istituito nel 1947 dallo scrittore William Somerset Maugham per incoraggiare i giovani autori ad arricchire il proprio bagaglio di esperienza nei paesi esteri, è rivolto a scrittori sotto i 35 anni e premia opere edite di narrativa, saggi e poesie[2].
Per l'edizione del 2019 il montepremi è stato di 16000 sterline ripartite in maniera equa tra i 4 vincitori[3].
| Anno | Scrittore | Opera |
|---|---|---|
| 1947 | A. L. Barker | Innocents |
| 1948 | Percy Howard Newby | Journey to the Interior |
| 1949 | Hamish Henderson | Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica |
| 1950 | Nigel Kneale | Tomato Cain & Other Stories |
| 1951 | Roland Camberton | Scamp |
| 1952 | Francis King | The Dividing Stream |
| 1953 | Emyr Humphreys | Hear and Forgive |
| 1954 | Doris Lessing | Five Short Novels |
| 1955 | Kingsley Amis | Lucky Jim |
| 1956 | Elizabeth Jennings | A Way of Looking |
| 1957 | George Lamming | In the Castle of My Skin |
| 1958 | John Wain | Preliminary Essays |
| 1959 | Thom Gunn | A Sense Of Movement |
| 1960 | Ted Hughes | The Hawk in the Rain |
| 1961 | V. S. Naipaul | Miguel Street |
| 1962 | Hugh Thomas | The Spanish Civil War |
| 1963 | David Storey | Flight Into Camden |
| 1964 | Dan Jacobson | Time of Arrival |
| John le Carré | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | |
| 1965 | Peter Everett | Negatives |
| 1966 | Michael Frayn | The Tin Men |
| Julian Mitchell | The White Father | |
| 1967 | B.S. Johnson | Trawl |
| Andrew Sinclair | The Better Half | |
| 1968 | Paul Bailey | At The Jerusalem |
| Seamus Heaney | Death of a Naturalist | |
| 1969 | Angela Carter | Several Perceptions |
| 1970 | Jane Gaskell | A Sweet Sweet Summer |
| Piers Paul Read | Monk Dawson | |
| 1971 | Susan Hill | I'm the King of the Castle |
| Richard Barber | The Knight and Chivalry | |
| Michael Hastings | Tussy Is Me | |
| 1972 | Douglas Dunn | Terry Street |
| Gillian Tindall | Fly Away Home | |
| 1973 | Peter Prince | Play Things |
| Paul Strathern | A Season in Abyssinia | |
| Jonathan Street | Prudence Dictates | |
| 1974 | Martin Amis | The Rachel Papers |
| 1975 | Premio non assegnato | |
| 1976 | Dominic Cooper | The Dead of Winter |
| Ian McEwan | First Love, Last Rites | |
| 1977 | Richard Holmes | Shelley: The Pursuit |
| 1978 | Tom Paulin | A State of Justice |
| Nigel Williams | My Life Closed Twice | |
| 1979 | Helen Hodgman | Jack & Jill |
| Sara Maitland | Daughter of Jerusalem | |
| 1980 | Max Hastings | Bomber Command |
| Christopher Reid | Arcadia | |
| Humphrey Carpenter | The Inklings | |
| 1981 | Julian Barnes | Metroland |
| Clive Sinclair | Hearts of Gold | |
| A. N. Wilson | The Healing Art | |
| 1982 | William Boyd | A Good Man in Africa |
| Adam Mars-Jones | Lantern Lecture | |
| 1983 | Lisa St Aubin de Teran | Keepers of the House |
| 1984 | Peter Ackroyd | The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde |
| Timothy Garton Ash | The Polish Revolution: Solidarity | |
| Sean O'Brien | The Indoor Park | |
| 1985 | Blake Morrison | Dark Glasses |
| Jeremy Reed | By the Fisheries | |
| Jane Rogers | Her Living Image | |
| 1986 | Patricia Ferguson | Family Myths and Legends |
| Adam Nicolson | Frontiers | |
| Tim Parks | Tongues of Flame | |
| 1987 | Stephen Gregory | The Cormorant |
| Janni Howker | Isaac Campion | |
| Andrew Motion | The Lamberts | |
| 1988 | Jimmy Burns | The Land That Lost Its Heroes |
| Carol Ann Duffy | Selling Manhattan | |
| Matthew Kneale | Whore Banquets | |
| 1989 | Rupert Christiansen | Romantic Affinities |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Swimming Pool Library | |
| Deirdre Madden | The Birds of the Innocent Wood | |
| 1990 | Mark Hudson | Our Grandmothers' Drums |
| Sam North | The Automatic Man | |
| Nicholas Shakespeare | The Vision of Elena Silves | |
| 1991 | Peter Benson | The Other Occupant |
| Lesley Glaister | Honour Thy Father | |
| Helen Simpson | Four Bare Legs in a Bed | |
| 1992 | Geoff Dyer | But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz |
| Lawrence Norfolk | Lemprière's Dictionary | |
| Gerard Woodward | Householder | |
| 1993 | Dea Birkett | Jella |
| Duncan McLean | Bucket of Tongues | |
| Glyn Maxwell | Out of the Rain | |
| 1994 | Jackie Kay | Other Lovers |
| A. L. Kennedy | Looking For the Possible Dance | |
| Philip Marsden | Crossing Place | |
| 1995 | Patrick French | Younghusband |
| Simon Garfield | The End of Innocence | |
| Kathleen Jamie | The Queen of Sheba | |
| Laura Thompson | The Dogs | |
| 1996 | Katherine Pierpoint | Truffle Beds |
| Alan Warner | Morvern Callar | |
| 1997 | Rhidian Brook | The Testimony of Taliesin Jones |
| Kate Clanchy | Slattern | |
| Philip Hensher | Kitchen Venom | |
| Francis Spufford | I May Be Some Time | |
| 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 | |
| 1999 | Andrea Ashworth | Once in a House on Fire |
| 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 | |
| 2000 | Bella Bathurst | The Lighthouse Stevensons |
| Sarah Waters | Affinity | |
| 2001 | Edward Platt | Leadville—A Biography of the A40 |
| Ben Rice | Pobby And Dingan | |
| 2002 | Charlotte Hobson | Black Earth City |
| Marcel Theroux | The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase | |
| 2003 | William Fiennes | The Snow Geese |
| Hari Kunzru | The Impressionist | |
| Jon McGregor | If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things | |
| 2004 | Charlotte Mendelson | Daughters of Jerusalem |
| Mark Blayney | Two Kinds of Silence | |
| Robert Macfarlane | Mountains of the Mind | |
| 2005 | Justin Hill | Passing Under Heaven |
| Maggie O'Farrell | The Distance Between Us | |
| 2006 | Chris Cleave | Incendiary |
| Zadie Smith | On Beauty | |
| Owen Sheers | Skirrid Hill | |
| 2007 | Horatio Clare | Running For The Hills |
| James Scudamore | The Amnesia Clinic | |
| 2008 | Gwendoline Riley | Joshua Spassky |
| Steven Hall | The Raw Shark Texts | |
| Nick Laird | On purpose | |
| Adam Thirwell | Miss Herbert | |
| 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 | |
| 2010 | Jacob Polley | Talk of the Town |
| Helen Oyeyemi | White is for Witching | |
| Ben Wilson | What Price Liberty? | |
| 2011 | Mirian Gamble | The Squirrels Are Dead |
| Alexandra Harris | Romantic Moderns | |
| Adam O’Riordan | In the Flesh | |
| 2012 | Premio non assegnato | |
| 2013 | Ned Beauman | The Teleportation Accident |
| Abi Curtis | The Glass Delusion | |
| Joe Stretch | The Adult | |
| Lucy Wood | Diving Belles | |
| 2014 | Nadifa Mohamed | The Orchard of Lost Souls |
| Daisy Hildyard | Hunters in the Snow Grass | |
| Amy Sackville | Orkney | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2017 | Edmund Gordon | The Invention of Angela Carter |
| Melissa Lee-Houghton | Sunshine | |
| Martin MacInnes | Infinite Ground | |
| 2018 | Kayo Chingonyi | Kumukanda |
| Fiona Mozley | Elmet | |
| Miriam Nash | All the Prayers in the House | |
| 2019 | Raymond Antrobus[5] | The Perseverance |
| Damian Le Bas | The Stopping Places | |
| Phoebe Power | Shrines of Upper Austria | |
| Nell Stevens | Mrs Gaskell and Me | |
| 2020 | Amrou Al-Kadhi[6] | Unicorn |
| Roseann Watt | Moder Dy | |
| Oliver Soden | Michael Tippett: The Biography | |
| Alex Allison | The Art of the Body | |
| 2021 | Akeem Balogun[7] | The Storm |
| Graeme Armstrong | The Young Team | |
| Isabelle Baafi | Ripe | |
| Lamorna Ash | Dark, Salt, Clear | |
| 2022 | Stephanie Sy-Quia[8] | Amnion |
| Tice Cin | Keeping the House | |
| Lucia Osborne-Crowley | My Body Keeps Your Secrets | |
| Caleb Azumah Nelson | Mare aperto (Open Water) | |
| Maia Elsner | Overrun by Wild Boars | |
| 2023 | Travis Alabanza[9] | None of the Above |
| Sussie Anie | To Fill a Yellow House | |
| Mya-Rose Craig | La mia famiglia e altri volatili (Birdgirl) | |
| Jay Gao | Imperium | |
| Gurnaik Johal | We move | |
| Moses McKenzie | An Olive Grove in Ends | |
Note
modifica- ^ (EN) Somerset Maugham Award Winners, su goodreads.com.
- ^ (EN) The Somerset Maugham Awards, su nawe.co.uk.
- ^ (EN) Porter Andreson, UK’s Society of Authors Awards Honor 32 Writers in Prize Fund of £100,000, su publishingperspectives.com, 20 giugno 2019. URL consultato il 28 agosto 2019.
- ^ (EN) Elenco dei vincitori, su societyofauthors.org. URL consultato il 28 agosto 2019 (archiviato dall'url originale il 27 agosto 2021).
- ^ (EN) Raymond Antrobus and Phoebe Power win Somerset Maugham Award, su poetrysociety.org.uk, 18 giugno 2019. URL consultato il 28 agosto 2019.
- ^ (EN) Muslim drag performer wins Society Of Authors award for debut memoir, su eveningexpress.co.uk, 18 giugno 2020. URL consultato il 20 giugno 2020.
- ^ (EN) Sian Bayley, McMullan and Millwood Hargrave win Society of Authors awards, su thebookseller.com, 9 giugno 2021. URL consultato il 13 luglio 2021.
- ^ (EN) Ruth Comerford, McPhail’s graphic novel among winners at £100k Society of Author Awards, su thebookseller.com, 1º giugno 2022. URL consultato il 3 giugno 2022.
- ^ (EN) Lauren Brown, Kennedy, Garmus, Wiles and more among winners of the Society of Authors’ Awards 2023, su thebookseller.com, 29 giugno 2023. URL consultato il 30 giugno 2023.
Collegamenti esterni
modifica- Sito ufficiale, su societyofauthors.org.
