Press Release
John Murray authors achieve double win a the Somerset Maugham Awards22/06/2009
John Murray had a fantastic showing at the Somerset Maugham Awards last night with two of the six awards awarded to John Murray Authors.
Alice Albinia's brilliant travel/history book about Pakistan, Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River and Henry Hitchings's already prize-winning book about the English language, The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English both received awards of £1000, which according to the rules of the prize, must be used for foreign travel.
W. Somerset Maugham set up the Somerset Maugham Awards fund in 1947 to enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries. £12,000 of prizes are awarded each year to British authors under the age of 35 for a published work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry.