A list of British literary awards:... given each May by the Society of Authors
Society of Authors
The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .... . It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £
Pound sterling
----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory.... 6000 per winner, to be spent on foreign travel. The total fund for each year is £12000 .
Since 1964, multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year.
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A list of British literary awards:... given each May by the Society of Authors
Society of Authors
The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .... . It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £
Pound sterling
----The pound sterling , subdivided into 100 pence , is the currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependency and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory.... 6000 per winner, to be spent on foreign travel. The total fund for each year is £12000 .
Since 1964, multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975, the award was not given. The Award has twice been won by the son of a previous winner: Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, Commander of Order of the British Empire was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism.... (winner in 1955) was the father of Martin Amis
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information .... (1974), and Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale was a Isle of Man writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Screenplay.... (1950) the father of Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale is a United Kingdom writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.... (1988).
Audrey Lilian Barker was an England novelist and short story writer. She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham. During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - John Brown's Body - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970....
Percy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969....
'Hamish Scott Henderson', was a Scotland poet, songwriter, socialist, humanist, soldier, and intellectual.He has been called the most important Scots poet since Robert Burns, catalyst for the folk revival in Scotland, discoverer of Jeannie Robertson, the man who accepted the surrender of Italy on 19 April 1945, the author of the Freedom...
Nigel Kneale was a Isle of Man writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Screenplay....
Roland Camberton was a United Kingdom writer whose real name was Henry Cohen, though his family also knew him as Harry. He won the 1951 Somerset Maugham Award, given to authors under the age of 35, for his novel Scamp....
Emyr Humphreys is a leading Welsh people novelist, poet and author. He was born at Trelawnyd in Flintshire, and attended the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, before registering as a conscientious objector at the outbreak of the Second World War....
Doris May Lessing Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is a Zimbabwe-United Kingdom writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook....
Sir Kingsley William Amis, Commander of Order of the British Empire was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism....
Lucky Jim is a comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 in literature by Victor Gollancz Ltd. It was his first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction....
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work....
John Wain was an England poetry, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group The Movement . For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalism and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio....
Thom Gunn was an Anglo-American poet. He was born Thomson William Gunn in Gravesend, Kent, Kent, the son of Bert Gunn. In his youth, he attended University College School in Hampstead, London....
Edward James Hughes Order of Merit was an England poet and Children's literature, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation....
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Knight Bachelor, Trinity Cross , better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidad and Tobago-born United Kingdom writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire....
Miguel Street is a autobiography by V. S. Naipaul set in World War II Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Naipaul wrote it while employed at the BBC using a BBC typewriter and "rustle-free paper."...
David Malcolm Storey , the son of a miner, is an England playwright, screenwriter, award winning novelist and a former professional Rugby League player....
Dan Jacobson is a Novel, short story writer, critic and essay. He has lived in Great Britain for most of his adult life, and for many years held a professorship in the English Department at University College London....
John le Carr? is an English author of spy fiction, several of which have been adapted for film and television. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s, before leaving the secret service to devote himself to writing after the success of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold....
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , by John le Carr? is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods as inconsistent with Western values....
Peter Everett was an English novelist and author. His first novel Negatives won the 1965 Somerset Maugham Award. Everett had written the book in a mere three weeks....
Michael Frayn is an England playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy ....
The Tin Men is a 1965 novel by Michael Frayn. It concerns the lives of workers at William Morris Institute for Automation Research. This is itself a joke as William Morris was all in favour of hand-working....
Julian Mitchell FRSL is an England playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for Inspector Morse....
B. S. Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker.Johnson was born into a working class family, was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work variously as an accounting clerk, bank junior and clerk at Standard Oil Company....
Andrew Sinclair is a British novelist, historian, critic, and film-maker. He was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge, and has taught and travelled widely across the world....
Death of a Naturalist is a collection of poems written by Irish people Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The collection was Heaney's second major published volume, and includes ideas which he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group....
Jane Gaskell is a British fantasy writer. Gaskell was born in 1941. She wrote her first novel Strange Evil, when she was 14. It was published two years later....
Susan Hill is a United Kingdom author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include the The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971....
Richard William Barber is a prominent United Kingdom historian who has been writing and publishing in the field of medieval history and literature ever since his student days....
Michael Gerald Hastings is a United Kingdom playwright, screen-writer, and occasional novelist and poet.He is probably best known for his 1984 play about the poet T.S....
Douglas Eaglesham Dunn, Order of the British Empire is a Scotland poet, academic, and critic. He currently lives in Scotland.Dunn was born in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire....
Gillian Tindall is a United Kingdom writer. Among her better-known works are City of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French Village....
Peter Prince is a United Kingdom novelist. He was born in England and studied in United States. His first novel Play Things won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973....
Paul Strathern is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years, after which he lived on a Greek island....
Martin Louis Amis is an England novelist, essayist, professor, and short story writer, and the son of the novelist and poet Kingsley Amis. His works include such novels as Money , London Fields and The Information ....
The Rachel Papers is a 1989 in film British film based on The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis. It stars Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye as the two main characters, and a number of famous names in supporting roles such as Jonathan Pryce, Bill Paterson, James Spader, Jared Harris, Claire Skinner, and Michael Gambon....
Gabriel David Josipovici is a British novelist, short story writer, critic, literary theorist, and playwright. He was born in Nice, France, of Sephardic, Egyptian-Jewish parents, who lived out the war years in a village in the French Alps....
First Love, Last Rites is a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan. It was first published in 1975 by Jonathan Cape and re-issued in 1997 by Vintage....
Thomas Neilson Paulin is a Northern Ireland poet and critic of film, music and literature. He lives in England, where he is the GM Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford....
Nigel Williams is a British novelist, screenwriter and playwright.He was educated at Highgate School and Oriel College, Oxford, Oxford, is married with three sons and lives in Putney, south-west London....
Sara Maitland is a United Kingdom writer and academic. An accomplished novelist, she is also known for her short stories. Her work has a magic realist tendency....
Sir Max Hastings, FRSL is a United Kingdom journalist, editing, historian and author. He is the son of Macdonald Hastings, the noted British journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar....
Christopher Reid is a United Kingdom poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997....
Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize . He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh....
Clive Sinclair is a British author who has published several award winning novels and collections of short stories, including The Lady with the Laptop and Bedbugs ....
Andrew Norman Wilson , is an English writer, known for his critical biographies, novels and works of popular and cultural history. After ten years as a teacher he became a journalist and writer....
A Good Man in Africa is the debut novel of Scottish writer William Boyd , a black comedy that follows the career of Morgan Leafy, a drunken English diplomat being blackmailed by an African politician as the country slowly descends into chaos....
Adam Mars-Jones is a United Kingdom novelist and critic.He was born in London, studied at Westminster School, and read Classics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge....
Lisa St Aubin de Ter?n is an award-winning England novelist, writer of autobiographical fictions, and memoirist.Lisa St Aubin de Ter?n was born in 1953 and brought up in Clapham in South London....
Peter Ackroyd CBE is an England novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. His works are comparable to Martin Amis, John Banville and Sebastian Barry....
Timothy Garton Ash Order of St Michael and St George, is the British people author of eight books of political writing or ?history of the present? which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century....
Sean O'Brien is a United Kingdom poet, critic, playwright, Presenter, anthologist, short story writer and editing. He grew up in Kingston upon Hull and has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990....
Philip Blake Morrison is a United Kingdom poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father?....
Jeremy Thomas Reed is an United States Major League Baseball outfielder who currently plays for the New York Mets. Reed graduated from Bonita High School in 1999, and went on to play college baseball at Long Beach State University....
Jane Rogers is a British people novelist, editor, scriptwriter, lecturer, and teacher. She is best know for her novels Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home....
Adam Nicolson is a United Kingdom author who has written about history, landscape and the sea.He is noted for his books Perch Hill, describing his struggles with a small Sussex farm, Sea Room — about the Shiant Isles, a group of uninhabited islands in the Hebrides — Power and Glory , on the making of the King James...
Tim Parks is a British novelist. Educated at Cambridge University and Harvard, he has lived near Verona in Italy since 1981.Parks is the author of several works of fiction and non-fiction....
Stephen Gregory is a Wales author of horror fiction. He was born in Derby, England in 1952. He has a degree in law from the University of London, and has worked as a teacher in various places, including Bangor, Gwynedd in Wales, Algiers in Algeria and the Sudan....
Janni Howker is a United Kingdom author who has written several award-winning adult and children's books; she has also adapted her work for the screen....
Carol Ann Duffy is a United Kingdom poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from University of Liverpool in 1977....
Matthew Kneale is a United Kingdom writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
Deirdre Madden is an author from Toomebridge, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at the University of East Anglia....
Mark Hudson is a record producer, musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the Hudson Brothers, and has produced albums for Ringo Starr, Aerosmith, Hanson and the Baha Men....
Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare is a British journalist and writer. Born to a diplomat, Shakespeare grew up in the Far East and in South America....
Lesley Glaister is a British novellist and playwright. She has written 11 novels, Nina Todd Has Gone being the most recent, one play and numerous short stories and radio plays....
Geoff Dyer is a British author. Educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he lives in London. He is best known as the author of But Beautiful , which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been called the best book ever written about jazz....
Lawrence Norfolk is a United Kingdom novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels are also known for their unusually large vocabulary....
Gerard Woodward is an award-winning United Kingdom novelist and poetry. He was born in London and educated at Falmouth School of Art and the London School of Economics, where he studied Social Anthropology....
Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scotland writer of novels, short story and non-fiction. She is known for a characteristically dark tone, a blending of Literary realism and fantasy, and for her serious approach to her work as well as a passion for the art of yodeling....
Philip Marsden also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley is an England travel writer and novelist.His books include The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians, The Spirit-Wrestlers: A Russian Journey and Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance....
Patrick French is an England writer and historian. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied literature. He is best known for his biography of Francis Younghusband which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W....
Simon Garfield is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics....
Kathleen Jamie is a Scotland poet, raised in Currie, Edinburgh. She gained an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh.Her first book was Black Spiders, published 1982 by Salamander Press....
Laura Thompson may refer to:* Laura Thompson, host for MuggleNet#Podcast, a Harry Potter-related podcast* Laura Thompson , television journalist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...
Alan Warner , a List of Scottish writers, grew up in Connel, near Oban.Together with Irvine Welsh and A. L. Kennedy he is seen by many critics as one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Scottish literature....
Morvern Callar was the debut novel by Scottish author Alan Warner, first published in 1995. Narrated in the first person, it tells the story of Morvern, who wakes up near Christmas to find her boyfriend dead under the tree:...
Rhidian Brook is a Wales novelist, broadcaster, TV dramatist and short-story writer.Brook has written two novels. His first - The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - won the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Author's Club First Novel Award as well being runner up for Welsh Book of The Year ....
Philip Michael Hensher is an England novelist, literary criticism and journalism.Hensher was born in South London, although he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton School....
Kate Summerscale is an award-winning English writer and journalist.She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House , which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water', which won a Somerset Maugham Awar...
Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He was born in Liverpool, studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria....
The Last King of Scotland is an award-winning novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Uganda President Idi Amin Dada and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is a fictional memoir of a Scotland doctor in Amin's employ....
Affinity is a 1999 historical fiction novel by Sarah Waters. It is the author's second novel, following Tipping the Velvet, and followed by Fingersmith ....
Ben Rice , is a prize-winning British author.Rice was educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at the Newcastle University and then the Wadham College, Oxford, before studying Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia....
Marcel Raymond Theroux is a United Kingdom novelist and broadcaster. He wrote The Stranger in The Earth and The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: a paper chase for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2002....
The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase is the title of a 2001 novel by Marcel Theroux.The protagonist is a British journalist, Damian March, who inherits a dilapidated mansion on the death of his uncle, Patrick....
Jon McGregor is a Great Britain author who has written two novels; If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, which was nominated for the 2002 Booker Prize, winner of the Betty Trask Prize and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 2003, and So Many Ways to Begin, which was published in 2006 and also found its way onto the Booker Prize l...
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things is author Jon McGregor's first novel, first published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 2002. It centres around a day in the life of a suburban British street, with the plot alternately following the lives of the street's various inhabitants....
Robert Macfarlane, , is a British travel writer, cultural historian, and literary critic. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is currently a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and teaches in the Faculty of English at Cambridge....
Justin Hill is an England novelist. Born in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island in 1971, he grew up in Yorkshire. He was educated at the historic St Peter's School, York, York....
Maggie O'Farrell is a United Kingdom author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future It is possible to identify several common themes in her novels - the relationship between sisters is one, another is loss and the psychological impact of those losses on the lives of her characters....
Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published....
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by United Kingdom author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry . The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States....
Horatio Clare is a writer, radio producer and journalist. Born in London, he and his brother Alexander grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains, Wales of south Wales....
James Scudamore is an author. He grew up in Japan, Brazil and the UK, and is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford and of the University of East Anglia....
Steven Hall is a British author. He has produced a number of plays, music videos, concrete prose/conceptual art pieces, and short stories.. He is represented by the literary agent Simon Trewin at United Agents in London, United Kingdom....
The Raw Shark Texts is a debut novel by author Steven Hall, released in 2007. The book was released by Canongate Books in the US and the UK, whilst HarperCollins is published it in Canada....
Nicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, where he attained a British undergraduate degree classification in English....
Gwendoline Riley is an English writer, born in 1979. Born in London, she attended Manchester Metropolitan University. She cites her influences as Fitzgerald, Salinger, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, William T....
Adam Thirlwell is a UK novelist. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Aret?, an arts tri-quarterly....
