Book prize

Somerset Maugham Award winners

3 winners we hold, newest first. A prize can lift demand for a book's first printing, so each entry links to its first edition and the points that identify it.

Won

Winners

  1. 1971 I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill First edition not yet identified
  2. 1968 Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney First edition: Faber & Faber 1966
  3. 1964 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre First edition: Victor Gollancz 1963

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