Literary Awards

Shakespeare Prize (Germany)

1970: Harold Pinter  
1982: Doris Lessing  
1993: Julian Barnes  
1999: Ian McEwan  
2002: A. S. Byatt  
2004: Paul Muldoon  

Shamus Award (Best First Novel)

2007: Declan Hughes   The Wrong Kind of Blood

Shamus Award (Best Novel)

2008: Declan Hughes   The Colour of Blood   (shortlist)
2009: Declan Hughes   The Dying Breed   (shortlist)

Sheffield Children's Book Award

1990: Joan Lingard   Tug of War
1992: Elizabeth Laird   Kiss the Dust
1996: Jacqueline Wilson   Double Act
1998: J K Rowling   Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1998: Charlotte Voake   Ginger
2000: Ian Whybrow   Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs
2002: Malorie Blackman   Noughts & Crosses
2003: Marcus Sedgwick   The Book of Dead Days   (shortlist)
2006: Theresa Breslin   Divided City   (shortlist)

Sheffield Children's Book Award (Longer Novel)

1997: Theresa Breslin   Death or Glory Boys
2003: Theresa Breslin   Remembrance   (shortlist)

Sheffield Children's Book Award (Short Novel)

1998: Jeremy Strong   Pirate Pandemonium
2001: Jeremy Strong   Living with Vampires

Sheffield Children's Book of the Year Award

1999: J K Rowling   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets   (shortlist)
2000: J K Rowling   Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban   (shortlist)

Sheffield Thursday Poetry Competition

1997: Mario Petrucci     (first prize 'Songs of the Field')

Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective

2000: Christopher Brookmyre   Boiling a Frog
2000: Lindsey Davis  

Sherlock Award for Best Crime Novel

2004: Val McDermid   The Distant Echo

Sherlock Award for Best Detective

2003: Stephen Booth   Blood on the Tongue   (shortlist)

Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize

1987: Hilary Mantel  
2000: Philip MacCann   Paradox in Paradise   (travel essay award)

Siân Phillips Award

2004: Emyr Humphreys  

Sidewise Award

1996: Stephen Baxter   Voyage   (best alternate history novel of the year)

Signal Poetry Award

1982: Michael Rosen   You Can't Catch Me!
1984: Roger McGough   Sky in the Pie
1993: Jackie Kay   Two's Company
1995: Helen Dunmore   Secrets
1997: Carol Ann Duffy   Stopping for Death
1999: Roger McGough   Bad, Bad Cats
1999: Jackie Kay   The Frog Who Dreamed She was an Opera Singer
2000: Christopher Reid   All Sorts

Silver Nymph

1990: David Lodge   Nice Work (screenplay)   (International Television Festival (Monte Carlo))

Silver Wyvern Award

2003: Mario Petrucci  

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival

2004: Frank Cottrell Boyce   Code 46   (Best Screenplay)

Sloan Prize - University of St Andrews

1994: Billy Kay   Lucky's Strike   (radio play)

Smarties Book Prize Gold Award

1989: Michael Rosen   We're Going On a Bear Hunt   (0-5 years category and overall winner)

Smith Books/Books in Canada First Novel Award

1992: Rohinton Mistry   Such a Long Journey

SNCF Prix Polar (France)

2006: Mo Hayder   Tokyo

Social Work Today Award

1990: A. L. Kennedy  

Society of Authors Award

1997: Russell Celyn Jones  

Society of Authors Fellowship

1986: Dan Jacobson  

Society of Authors Foundation Fund Writers' Award

1993: Graham Mort  
2007: Chrissie Gittins  

Society of Authors Travel Award

1979: Emyr Humphreys  
1988: David Harsent  
1994: Bernard MacLaverty  
1996: Stewart Conn  
1998: Dilys Rose  
2003: Jamie McKendrick  
2007: Susan Elderkin  
2008: Marina Lewycka  
2008: Ruth Padel  
2008: Colin Thubron  
2009: Paul Farley  

Society of London Theatres Special Award for Contribution to Theatre

2005: Alan Bennett   The History Boys

Society of School Librarians International Honor Book Award (USA)

1990: Michael Rosen   We're Going on a Bear Hunt
2005: Meja Mwangi   The Mzungu Boy

Society of West End Theatres Best Play

1980: David Edgar   The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Society of Women Writers and Journalists Award

2001: Laura Fish  

Sollihull John Lewis Children's Book Award

2008: Sophie McKenzie   Girl, Missing

Somerset Maugham Award

1953: Emyr Humphreys   Hear and Forgive
1954: Doris Lessing   Five
1961: V. S. Naipaul   Miguel Street
1963: David Storey   Radcliffe
1964: Dan Jacobson   Time of Arrival and Other Essays
1966: Michael Frayn   The Tin Men
1967: Seamus Heaney   Death of a Naturalist
1968: Paul Bailey   At The Jerusalem
1970: Piers Paul Read   Monk Dawson
1971: Susan Hill   I'm the King of the Castle
1972: Douglas Dunn   Terry Street
1974: Martin Amis   The Rachel Papers
1976: Ian McEwan   First Love, Last Rites
1977: Richard Holmes   Shelley: The Pursuit
1978: Tom Paulin   A State of Justice
1979: Sara Maitland   Daughters of Jerusalem
1980: Christopher Reid   Arcadia
1981: Julian Barnes   Metroland
1982: William Boyd   A Good Man in Africa
1982: Adam Mars-Jones   Lantern Lecture
1984: Peter Ackroyd   The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
1984: Sean O'Brien   The Indoor Park
1985: Blake Morrison   Dark Glasses
1985: Jane Rogers   Her Living Image
1986: Tim Parks   Tongues of Flame
1987: Andrew Motion   The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit
1988: Carol Ann Duffy   Selling Manhattan
1988: Matthew Kneale   Whore Banquets
1989: Nicholas Shakespeare   The Vision of Elena Silves
1989: Alan Hollinghurst   The Swimming-Pool Library