Somerset Maugham Award
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The Somerset Maugham Award
Created and endowed in 1947 by Somerset Maugham to enable British authors under the age of 35 to enrich their writing by spending time abroad, the Somerset Maugham Award may be best known for its being given to Kingsley Amis--who famously disliked foreign travel and used the money to write a book called I Like It Here--in 1955, for Lucky Jim, which Maugham had reviewed, pronouncing its author "scum." It is administered by the Society of Authors; recently there have been several winners each year, each of whom receives £3500. The awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.
Zadie Smith was awarded in 2006 for On Beauty
