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  Somerset Maugham Award - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It is awarded to who they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £3500, to be spent on foreign travel.
The Award has twice been won by the son of a previous winner: Kingsley Amis (winner in 1955) was the father of Martin Amis (1974), and Nigel Kneale (1950) the father of Matthew Kneale (1988).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Somerset_Maugham_Award   (164 words)

  
 Somerset Maugham Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.
The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus bears his name: the award is currently £6000 per winner, to be spent on foreign travel.
The Award has twice been won by the son of a previous winner: Kingsley Amis (winner in 1955) was the father of Martin Amis (1974), and Nigel Kneale (1950) the father of Matthew Kneale (1988).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Somerset_Maugham_Award   (204 words)

  
 Somerset Maugham Award - Table - MSN Encarta
Somerset Maugham Award - Table - MSN Encarta
This literary award in the United Kingdom was created by W. Somerset Maugham in 1947 for young British writers (under the age of 35) to spend on foreign travel.
The prize (£3,500 to each winner, equivalent to about $5,700) is awarded annually in May by the Society of Authors.
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 William Somerset Maugham - Biography and Works
Maugham was born in France in 1874 as the sixth and the youngest child of an English family.
Maugham’s first novel Liza of Lambeth was published in 1897, which was based on Maugham’s experiences as a doctor, especially those which acquired during the days he attended women in childbirth.
Somerset Maugham died in Nice, France on December 16, 1965.
www.online-literature.com /maugham   (1065 words)

  
 eReader.com: Author: W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris on January 25, 1874.
His father, Robert Ormond Maugham, was a solicitor to the British embassy; his mother, Edith Mary, saw to it that Willie, as he would be known, was born on the grounds of the embassy so as to ensure his British citizenship.
Still, Maugham discovered an appreciation of and gift for words, and it was during a period of studying at Heidelberg that Maugham decided to become a writer.
www.ereader.com /author/detail/1848   (893 words)

  
 William Somerset Maugham - Literature Vault - Classic Authors and Literature Online!
Maugham wrote comedies, psychological novels and spy stories (although the latter part of his work is hardly ever seen as belonging to crime fiction proper).
Maugham's masterpiece is generally agreed to be Of Human Bondage, an autobiographical novel which deals with the life of Philip Carey, who, like Maugham, was orphaned and brought up by his pious uncle.
In 1947 he instituted the Somerset Maugham Award, still given to this day to the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a work of fiction published in the past year.
www.literaturevault.com /author/William-Somerset-Maugham   (212 words)

  
 NMSU Library Award Winning Books
Awards are for books published in each calendar year, by writers living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in California north of a line between Big Sur and Fresno.
Awards are for authors under 35 and commonwealth citizens for a first novel of a traditional or romantic nature.
The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award was established in 1992 by the late Kate Tufts in memory of her husband, poet and writer Kingsley Tufts.
lib.nmsu.edu /depts/collserv/AWARDS99.html   (9760 words)

  
 W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somerset Maugham as photographed in 1934 by Carl Van Vechten.
William Somerset Maugham, CH (January 25, 1874 Paris, France – December 16, 1965 Nice, France) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer, one of the most widely-known western authors of the 1930s and reportedly the highest paid.
Maugham, by now in his sixties, spent most of World War II in the United States, first in Hollywood (he worked on many scripts, and was one of the first authors to make significant money from film adaptations) and later in the South.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Somerset_Maugham   (3691 words)

  
 Granta: Best of Young British Novelists 2003: The list
Rachel Cusk was born in Canada in 1967 to British parents, and lived in the United States until 1974, when the family returned to England.
She is the author of four novels: Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Temporary, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award; and The Lucky Ones (Fourth Estate).
His novels are Other Lulus (1994), Kitchen Venom (1996) which won a Somerset Maugham Award, Pleasured (1998) and The Mulberry Empire (2002) which was shortlisted for the W. Smith Literary Award.
www.granta.com /boybn/2003   (1814 words)

  
 Seamus Heaney Wins Truman Capote Award For Literary Criticism - University News Service - The University of Iowa
The $50,000 Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Past winners of the Capote Award have been British scholar P.N. Fairbank, Helen Vendler of Harvard University, John Felstiner of Stanford University, John Kerrigan of Cambridge University, pianist/scholar Charles Rosen of the University of Chicago, Elaine Scarry and Philip Fisher of Harvard University, Malcolm Bowie of Oxford University and Declan Kiberd of University College, Dublin.
Newton Arvin, in whose memory the award was established, was one of the critics Capote admired.
www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2003/may/050803heaney-capote-award.html   (723 words)

  
 Granta: News: Charlotte Hobson wins Somerset Maugham Award
Charlotte Hobson has been awarded a Somerset Maugham Award worth £6,000 for Black Earth City.
The Awards were founded by Somerset Maugham to enable British authors under the age of 35 to enrich their writing by foreign travel.
They are given on the strength of a published book.
www.granta.com /news/item?item_id=587917   (56 words)

  
 Forward Prize for Poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She was awarded the Eric Gregory award in 1982, the Somerset Maugham award in 1994, the Forward prize for best single poem in 1996 and the Geoffrey Faber memorial award twice, in 1996 and 2000.
A Gregory Award winner, Leontia Flynn - still in her twenties - writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland with a precision and tenderness that is completely fresh.
While her subject matter ranges from memories of childhood to the instabilities of adulthood, from the raw domestic to the restless pull of 'elsewhere', her theme throughout is a search for physical and mental well-being, for a way to live a life.
www.gardners.com /gazettelinks/2004/awards_prizewinners/prize081004.asp   (688 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Maugham, William Somerset   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maugham was an extremely productive writer who both mastered and gained popular success with novels, short stories, and plays.
Maugham was born in Paris, the son of the solicitor and legal adviser to the British embassy.
Maugham carefully avoided treating homosexual themes and depicting homosexual characters in his works, possibly because, as the American novelist, Glenway Wescott, pointed out, "Willie's generation lived in mortal terror of the Oscar Wilde trial."
www.glbtq.com /literature/maugham_ws.html   (581 words)

  
 William Somerset Maugham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Maugham acabou ingressando na King’s School, em Canterbury e começa os seus primeiros passos literários, com contos de fundo psicológico e estórias de espiões.
Maugham revelou antes que havia se inspirado em um homem que conhecera, mas o encontrava apenas em longos intervalos, apesar de terem construído uma grande amizade.
Maugham faleceu em Nice, na França, aos 91 anos, no dia 16 de dezembro de 1965 e ficou imortalizado com um dos mais excepcionais entendidos da alma humana e com um estilo que mostrava grande sutileza, ironia e um mestre de contar grandes histórias.
www.beatrix.pro.br /literatura/maugham.htm   (778 words)

  
 The Asham Award 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Asham Award is open to writers who have not yet had a novel or a collection of short stories published.
She is the author of nine novels, including Honor Thy Father, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award.
Her stories have been widely anthologised and broadcast on the raio, and she was one of the first winners of the Asham Award in 1996.
www.wordup.co.uk /awardsandprizes/old/asham.htm   (700 words)

  
 W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is at this time that Maugham developed the stammer that would stay with him all his life, although it was sporadic and subject to mood and circumstance
Maugham returned to England from his ambulance unit duties to promote Of Human Bondage but once that was finalised, he became eager to assist the war effort once more.
Maugham's last years were sadly marred by several quasi-scandals which can probably be set down to an itch for attention mixed with cloudy thinking from approaching dementia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham   (3691 words)

  
 Britain’s Women-Only Orange Prize for Fiction - Merritt Moseley
The two leading novel awards are the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize.
The Booker, worth *21,000, has been awarded since 1969 and, for many reasons (including well-publicized spats among the judges and snits among the losers), has the largest reputation.
It is awarded at a grand ceremony held at London's Guildhall, broadcast live on television.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/2001/july/Sa21348.htm   (229 words)

  
 The American University of Paris | Guest Speakers
Although Josipovici's early short fiction, which won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 1975, is technically extremely versatile and innovative, and therefore answers to the label from a formal perspective, the author's later fiction no longer obtrudes formal solicisms on the reader and should therefore be exempted from this type of criticism.
Mobius, who is a great philosopher, is peeling off layer after layer of argument to arrive at the empty centre of truth, whereas the narrator agonizes over the inability to say anything worthwhile until he hits upon the story of this impossibility exemplified by Mobius.
After this first volume of stories, which made Josipovici into an immediate celebrity (especially after the Somerset Maugham Award was withdrawn on account of his lack of a British passport at birth), Josipovici continued to write short fiction into the 1980s, producing a final collection called In the Fertile Land in 1987.
www.aup.fr /news/pastconf/speakers/josipovici.htm   (1174 words)

  
 Ambasador of Conscience Award
To commemorate the 2005 Award Ceremony, photographer Paula Allen has donated an image from her haunting photographic exhibit Flowers in the Desert which has been produced in a limited edition poster.
The 1995 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, Seamus Heaney has won numerous other awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (1973), the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1975), the American Irish Foundation Literary Award (1973) and the W H Smith Annual Award (1976).
In 1987 he was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Award for the Haw Lantern.
www.artforamnesty.org /aoc/biog_heaney.html   (205 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Razor's Edge by William Somerset Maugham
Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.  Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
Somerset Maugham was one the twentieth century?s most popular novelists as well as a celebrated playwright, critic, and short story writer.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/usedproduct?isbn=1400034205   (429 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Gabriel Josipovici
Although Josipovici's early short fiction, which won him the Somerset Maugham Award in 1975, is technically extremely versatile and innovative, and therefore answers to the label from a formal perspective, the author's later fiction no longer obtrudes formal solicisms on the reader and should therefore be exempted from this type of criticism.
Mobius, who is a great philosopher, is peeling off layer after layer of argument to arrive at the empty centre of truth, whereas the narrator agonizes over the inability to say anything worthwhile until he hits upon the story of this impossibility exemplified by Mobius.
After this first volume of stories, which made Josipovici into an immediate celebrity (especially after the Somerset Maugham Award was withdrawn on account of his lack of a British passport at birth), Josipovici continued to write short fiction into the 1980s, producing a final collection called In the Fertile Land in 1987.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2415   (712 words)

  
 Books | A bookie's guide to the Booker
Although the Booker always maintains that it does not exist as a lifetime achievement award, there is a sense that Jacobson is due some recognition for his prodigious output.
She is a previous winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
Hensher is a previous winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize for Kitchen Venom.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4488189-110955,00.html   (1147 words)

  
 LU News Article
Born in Liverpool, Paul Farley studied at the Chelsea School of Art and has previously won a Forward Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award as well as Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year.
Thirty winning poems will be published in litfest's annual anthology launched during festival week, at which the successful authors will be invited to read their poems and share a glass of wine with the other winners, all of whom will be awarded a cash prize.
Those selected automatically become eligible for the John Ward memorial prize, awarded to the poet most in tune with the spirit of the work of the late writer.
domino.lancs.ac.uk /info/LUNews.nsf/G/3AF23704CB9566FC80256CED004BDFBC   (421 words)

  
 BBC - Drama - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters Profile
As winner of the Somerset Maugham award and short listed for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction*, it is no surprise that the Welsh-born, London-based writer is often referred to as the 'female Charles Dickens'.
Once it was, much of the uproar was converted into applause, and the show came second in the BBC Drama website's Best Drama Of 2002 vote.
Sarah's second novel Affinity, which follows the life of an imprisoned spiritualist in one of London's most notorious jails, won the Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2000.
www.bbc.co.uk /drama/fingersmith/sarah_waters.shtml   (370 words)

  
 Julian Barnes Website: Homepage
In France, he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 2004 he became a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Details of the short listed titles of the 2007 award were announced in the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Vincent Jackson, Patron of the Award, on the 4th April.
The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind.
www.julianbarnes.com   (409 words)

  
 Ian McEwan Website: Homepage
Among them are the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; Whitbread Novel Award (1987) and Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize in 1999.
His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002), National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004).
A film version of his award winning novel Atonement is currently in production.
www.ianmcewan.com   (732 words)

  
 Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale was born in London in 1960, read Modern History at Oxford University and on graduating in 1982, spent a year teaching English in Japan, where he began writing short stories.
He is the author of four novels: Whore Banquets (1987), set in Japan and later re-issued as Mr Foreigner (2002), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; Inside Rose's Kingdom (1989); Sweet Thames (1992), set in London in the 1840s and winner of a Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and English Passengers (2002).
It is told in 20 different voices, won the 2000 Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0cb241BC56UvP165E5CD   (239 words)

  
 JR.com: MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET in Movies
John Cromwell (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA, THE GODDESS) brings W. Somerset Maugham's novel and Bette Davis’s career to life with the...
Based on W. Somerset Maugham's highly acclaimed 1944 novel, this is a sprawling, ambitious account of one man's quest for spiritual...
Joan Crawford, starring as prostitute Sadie Thompson in this adaptation of the Maugham story, is a magnet for all the men on the exotic...
www.jr.com /xs-maugham-w-somerset-in-movies--cp!t;nn!2053445.html   (263 words)

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