E. M. Forster Award

The E. M. Forster Award is a $20,000 award given annually to an Irish or British writer to fund a period of travel in the United States. The award, named after the English novelist E. M. Forster, is administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Academy members nominate authors and winners are selected by a rotating committee.

Past winners
E.M. Forster Award
Foreign Honorary Member E.M. Forster (1879-1970) bequeathed the American publication rights and royalties of his posthumous novel Maurice to Academician Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), who transferred them to the Academy for the establishment of an award, now $15,000, to be given to a young English writer for a stay in the United States.

Name
Year

John Lanchester
2008

Jez Butterworth -- playwright
2007

Geoff Dyer
2006

Dennis O'Driscoll
2005

Robin Robertson
2004

Andrew O'Hagan
2003

Helen Simpson
2002

Marina Carr
2001

Carol Ann Duffy
2000

Nick Hornby
1999

Kate Atkinson
1998

Glyn Maxwell
1997

Jim Crace
1996

Colm Toibin
1995

Janice Galloway
1994

Sean O'Brien
1993

Timothy Mo
1992

Alan Hollinghurst
1991

Jeanette Winterson
1990

A. N. Wilson
1989

Blake Morrison
1988

Julian Barnes
1986

Humphrey Carpenter
1984

F.T. Prince

Bruce Chatwin
1979

David Cook
1977

Jon Stallworthy
1976

Seamus Heaney
1975

Paul Bailey
1974

Margaret Drabble
1973

Frank Tuohy
1972