Travelling Scholarship

The Travelling Scholarships were established in 1944 to enable British creative writers to keep in touch with their colleagues abroad. As directed by the anonymous founder of the trust, the Scholarships are administered by the Society of Authors and applications are not accepted – recipients are nominated by the assessors for the year. In 2020, each awardee received £1600.

1940s
1946 1947 1948 1949
 * C. Day Lewis
 * V. S. Pritchett
 * William Sansom
 * Dylan Thomas
 * Julia Strachey
 * George Barker
 * William Plomer
 * Margiad Evans
 * Jocelyn Brooke

1950s
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1956 1958
 * David Gascoyne
 * Laurie Lee
 * Vernon Watkins
 * Arthur Calder-Marshall
 * Charles Causley
 * F.P. Prince
 * Maurice Cranston
 * Vernon Watkins
 * William Golding
 * Samuel Selvon

1960s
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
 * Michael Swan
 * John Whiting
 * David Jones
 * Frank Tuohy
 * R. S. Thomas
 * Norman MacCaig
 * Christine Brooke-Rose
 * Margaret Drabble
 * Charles Causley
 * George Mackay Brown
 * Stevie Smith
 * Naomi Lewis
 * Peter Vansittart

1970s
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
 * Ronald Blythe
 * William Trevor
 * Norman Nicholson
 * Philip Callow
 * John McGahern
 * Maureen Duffy
 * Lettice Cooper
 * Gavin Ewart
 * Philippa Pullar
 * Ted Walker
 * Edward Blishen
 * Emyr Humphreys
 * Jacky Gillott
 * Peter Porter

1980s
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
 * D. J. Enright
 * Fay Weldon
 * Douglas Dunn
 * Mervyn Jones
 * Rosemary Dinnage
 * Richard Holmes
 * U. A. Fanthorpe
 * Hilary Spurling
 * Alan Brownjohn
 * P. N. Furbank
 * Martin Seymour-Smith
 * Jackie Kay
 * John Griffith Bowen
 * Dan Jacobson
 * Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie
 * Shena Mackay
 * Vernon Scannell
 * Iain Crichton Smith
 * A. L. Barker
 * Eva Figes
 * Allan Massie
 * David Rudkin
 * Sybille Bedford
 * David Harsent
 * Barry Hines
 * Nicholas Wollaston
 * Roy Heath
 * Adrian Mitchell
 * Elizabeth North

1990s
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999
 * David Caute
 * Roy Fisher
 * David Hughes
 * Robert Nye
 * Anne Devlin
 * Elaine Feinstein
 * Iain Sinclair
 * Emma Tennant
 * Jim Crace
 * Donald Davie
 * Louis de Bernieres
 * Maurice Leitch
 * Peter Levi
 * Bernard MacLaverty
 * Peter Benson
 * Jenny Joseph
 * Stewart Conn
 * Annette Kobak
 * Theo Richmond
 * William Palmer
 * Jo Shapcott
 * James Simmons
 * Dorothy Nimmo
 * Dilys Rose
 * Paul Sayer
 * Julia Blackburn
 * David Hart
 * David Mitchell

2000s
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 * Robert Edric
 * Georgina Hammick
 * Grace Ingoldby
 * Walter Perrie
 * Alan Judd
 * Christina Koning
 * Tessa Ransford
 * Maurice Riordan
 * Frank Kuppner
 * David Park
 * George Szirtes
 * Kate Chisholm
 * Jamie McKendrick
 * Aonghas Macneacail
 * Tim Binding
 * Colm Toibin
 * Anna Crowe
 * Lavinia Greenlaw
 * Jenny Diski
 * Robert Macfarlane
 * Helen Simpson
 * Naomi Alderman
 * Susan Elderkin
 * Philip Marsden
 * Marina Lewycka
 * Ruth Padel
 * Colin Thubron
 * Paul Farley
 * Eva Hoffman

2010s
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
 * Sam North
 * Lemn Sissay
 * Roma Tearne
 * Mark Cocker
 * Rose George
 * Ben Markovits
 * Stella Duffy
 * Matthew Hollis
 * Justin Marozzi
 * Kathleen Jamie
 * Olivia Laing
 * Elizabeth Cooke
 * James Fergusson
 * Eimear McBride
 * Daljit Nagra
 * Michela Wrong
 * Tahmima Anam
 * James Hall
 * Philip Terry
 * Rupert Thomson
 * Jamie Bartlett
 * David Crane
 * Peter Oswald
 * David Szalay
 * Amy Liptrot
 * Ross Raisin
 * James Sheard
 * Jenn Ashworth
 * Tash Aw
 * Jessie Greengrass
 * James Harpur
 * Sudhir Hazareesingh
 * Kathryn Hughes
 * Damian Le Bas
 * Nadifa Mohamed
 * Johny Pitts
 * Gwendoline Riley

2020s
2020 2021 2022
 * Luke Brown
 * Inua Ellams
 * Georgina Lawton
 * Neil Rollinson
 * Ahdaf Soueif
 * Clare Pollard
 * Guy Gunaratne
 * Lola Okolosie
 * Tom Stevenson
 * Yara Rodrigues Fowler
 * Linda Brogan
 * Maame Blue
 * Dylan Moore
 * Ayisha Malik
 * Ben Judah
 * Alice Albinia