The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. William Somerset Maugham set up the award in 1947 to help young writers improve their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The award is given to writers under the age of 35 whose work was published in the year before the award. The work can be nonfiction, fiction, or poetry.

Since 1964, it has been common to choose more than one winner in the same year. The award was not given in 1975 and in 2012.