- Prix Somerset-Maugham
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Le prix Somerset-Maugham est un prix littéraire britannique remis au mois de mai de chaque année par la Society of Authors. Le prix est remis à un écrivain (ou des écrivains) considéré comme le meilleur parmi ceux ayant moins de 35 ans pour un livre publié dans la dernière année. Le prix, créé par William Somerset Maugham en 1947, est assorti d'une bourse de 6 000 livres sterling par gagnant, à être dépensé en voyages à l'extérieur du pays. Le montant total versé à chaque année est de 12 000 livres[1].
Depuis 1964, le prix a souvent été remis à plusieurs écrivains pendant une même année. En 1975, il n'a pas été remis.
Liste des gagnants
Année Écrivain Livre 1947 A. L. Barker Innocents 1948 P. H. 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 (voir Sept Jours de malheur) 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 L'espion qui venait du froid 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 (Aucun prix remis) (Aucun prix remis) 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 Le Dernier Roi d'Écosse 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 Liens externes
- (en) Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction, différents prix remis par la Society of Authors
- (en) The Somerset Maugham Award, une liste des gagnants
Sources
- (en) Prizes, grants and awards, Society of Authors, consulté le 2008-01-16.
Portail de la littérature
Portail des récompenses et distinctions
Catégorie :- Prix littéraire au Royaume-Uni
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