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 Frank Tuohy 1972 Margaret Drabble 1973 Paul Bailey 1974 Seamus Heaney 1975 Jon Stallworthy 1976 David Cook 1977 Bruce Chatwin 1979 F.T. Prince 1982 Humphrey Carpenter 1984 Julian Barnes 1986 Blake Morrison 1988 A. N. Wilson 1989 Jeanette Winterson 1990 Alan Hollinghurst 1991 Timothy Mo 1992 Sean O'Brien 1993 Janice Galloway 1994 Colm Tóibín 1995 Jim Crace 1996 Glyn Maxwell 1997 Kate Atkinson 1998 Nick Hornby 1999 Carol Ann Duffy 2000 Marina Carr 2001 Helen Simpson 2002 Andrew O'Hagan 2003 Robin Robertson 2004 Dennis O'Driscoll 2005 Geoff Dyer 2006 Jez Butterworth 2007 John Lanchester 2008 Paul Farley 2009 Dan Rhodes 2010 Rachel Seiffert 2011 David Mitchell 2012 Adam Foulds 2013 Sarah Hall 2014 Adam Thirlwell 2015 Sinéad Morrissey 2016 Robert MacFarlane 2017 Jon McGregor 2018 Sally Rooney 2019 Stephen Sexton 2020 References External links Contact information Past winners American literary awards Awards of the American Academy of Arts and Letters