Somerset Maugham Award - Revision history

Anna Auguscik at 09:47, 7 February 2008

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	*recently there have been several winners each year, each of whom receives £3500.		*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.		*The awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.
	*~~Zadie Smith was awarded in~~ 2006 ~~for~~ '''~~On Beauty~~'''		__NOTOC__
			==2007==
			Winners £5000 each
			*Horatio Clare, Running to the Hills (2006) John Murray
			*James Scudamore, The Amnesia Clinic (2006) Harvill Secker

			*'''Judges''': Louise Doughty, Susan Elderkin and Matt Thorne

			==2006==
			*Chris Cleave, Incendiary, published by Chatto & Windus
			*Owen Sheers, Skirrid Hill, published by Seren
			*Zadie Smith, On Beauty (2005) published by Hamish Hamilton

	[[Category: Literary Awards]]		[[Category: Literary Awards]]

Anna Auguscik at 17:41, 6 December 2007

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	*The awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.		*The awards are not limited to fiction, though dramatic works are excluded from consideration.
	*Zadie Smith was awarded in 2006 for '''On Beauty'''		*Zadie Smith was awarded in 2006 for '''On Beauty'''

			[[Category: Literary Awards]]

Anna Auguscik at 14:55, 1 December 2007

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	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.		*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."
	Zadie Smith was awarded in 2006 for '''On Beauty'''		*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'''

John Alistair KÃ¼hne: /* The Somerset Maugham Award */

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The 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.		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'''		Zadie Smith was awarded in 2006 for '''On Beauty'''

John Alistair KÃ¼hne at 13:10, 1 December 2007

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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'''