Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The society is a cultural tenant at London's Somerset House.

Royal Society of Literature
AbbreviationRSL
Formation1820
TypeLearned society
HeadquartersSomerset House, London, England, United Kingdom
President
Dame Marina Warner DBE
Patron
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Websitersliterature.org

History

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) was founded in 1820, with the patronage of George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent",[1] and its first president was Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (who was later translated as Bishop of Salisbury).

At the heart of the RSL is its Fellowship, "which encompasses the most distinguished writers working today", with the RSL Council, Chair and President, who are responsible for its direction and management, being drawn from the Fellowship. As an independent charity, the RSL receives no regular public or government funding, relying on the support of its Members, Patrons, Fellows and friends to continue its work. The RSL has about 600 Fellows, elected from among the best writers in any genre currently at work. Additionally, Honorary Fellows are chosen from those who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of literature, including publishers, agents, librarians, booksellers or producers, or who have rendered special service to the RSL.[2] Paid membership is open to all and offers a variety of benefits.[3][4]

The society publishes an annual magazine, The Royal Society of Literature Review,[5] and administers a number of literary prizes and awards, including the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the RSL Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction, the RSL Encore Award for best second novel of the year and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for short stories.

In 2020, the RSL celebrated its 200th anniversary with the announcement of RSL 200, "a five-year festival launched with a series of major new initiatives and 60 new appointments championing the great diversity of writing and writers in the UK".[6]

Fellowship

The society maintains its current level of about 600 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: generally 14 new fellows are elected annually, who are accorded the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.

Past fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Koestler, Chinua Achebe, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Robert Ardrey, Sybille Bedford, Muriel Spark, P. J. Kavanagh, and Sir Roger Scruton. Present Fellows include Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo, David Hare, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Sarah Waters, Geoffrey Ashe and J. K. Rowling. A newly created fellow inscribes his or her name on the society's official roll using either Byron's pen, T. S. Eliot's fountain pen, which replaced Dickens's quill in 2013,[7] or (as of 2018) George Eliot's pen.[8]

From time to time the RSL confers the honour and title of Companion of Literature to writers of particular note. Additionally the RSL can bestow its award of the Benson Medal for lifetime service in the field of literature.

Membership

The RSL runs a membership programme offering a variety of events to members and the general public. Membership of the RSL is open to all.[9]

The RSL also runs an outreach programme, currently for young people and those in prison.

Awards and prizes

The RSL administers two annual prizes, two awards, and two honours. Through its prize programmes, the RSL supports new and established contemporary writers.

  • The RSL Christopher Bland Prize — £10,000 for debut prose writers over the age of 50.
  • The Encore Awards — £10,000 for best second novel of the year. The RSL took over the administration of this award in 2016.
  • The RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction – annual awards, one of £10,000 and two of £5,000, to authors engaged on their first commissioned works of non-fiction.
  • The RSL Ondaatje Prize – an annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, evoking the spirit of a place.
  • The V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize – an annual prize of £1,000 for the best unpublished short story of the year.
  • The Benson Medal – awarded to those who have done sustained and outstanding service to literature.
  • Companion of Literature – the highest honour that the Society can bestow upon a writer.

Council and presidents

The Council of the Royal Society of Literature is central to the election of new fellows, and directs the RSL's activities through its monthly meetings. Council members serve for a fixed term of four years, with new members being elected by Council when members retire.[10]

Patron
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
President
Dame Marina Warner DBE
Presidents Emeritus
Sir Michael Holroyd CBE FRHistS C Lit
Colin Thubron CBE
Chair of Council
Daljit Nagra OBE
Vice-Presidents
Council

List of Presidents

Fellows

The Royal Society of Literature comprises over 600 Fellows who are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSL.

New fellows of the Royal Society of Literature are elected by its current fellows. To be nominated for fellowship, a writer must have published two works of literary merit, and nominations must be seconded by an RSL fellow. All nominations are presented to members of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, who vote biannually to elect new fellows. Nominated candidates who have not been successful are reconsidered at every election for three years from the year in which they were proposed. Newly elected fellows are introduced at the Society's AGM and summer party. While the President reads a citation for each, they are invited to sign their names in the roll book which dates back to 1820, using either T. S. Eliot's fountain pen or Byron's pen. In 2013, Charles Dickens's quill was retired and replaced with Eliot's fountain pen,[7] and in 2018 George Eliot's pen was offered as a choice, the first time in the RSL's history that a pen that belonged to a woman writer was an option.[8] In 2018 the RSL honoured the achievements of Britain's younger writers through the initiative "40 Under 40", which saw the election of 40 new fellows aged under 40.[11]

Current fellows

Fellow Year of
election
*Julia Abel Smith DL 2008
*Melanie Abrahams FRSA 2034
Peter Ackroyd CBE 1984
Donald Adamson JP FSA FRHistS 1983
Fleur Adcock CNZM OBE 1984
Diran Adebayo 2006
John Agard 2007
Bola Agbaje 2018
Patience Agbabi 2017
Hanan al-Shaykh 2019
Monica Ali 2019
Keith Alldritt 1978
Fergus Allen CB 2000
*Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE 2019
David Almond 2011
*David Altaras 1996
Martin Amis 1983
Mark Amory 1996
Tahmima Anam 2017
*Linda Anderson 2020
Carole Angier 2002
Raymond Antrobus 2020
Kwame Anthony Appiah 2017
Lisa Appignanesi OBE 2015
Chloe Aridjis 2020
Simon Armitage CBE 2004
Karen Armstrong 2005
Bruce Arnold OBE 1994
Geoffrey Ashe 1963
Michael Asher 1996
Rosemary Ashton OBE FBA 1999
Jenn Ashworth 2018
Nadeem Aslam 2010
*Syima Aslam 2019
Diana Athill OBE 2001
Kate Atkinson MBE 2010
Margaret Atwood CC FRSC C Lit 2010
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE 1991
*Pete Ayrton 2019
David Baddiel 2019
Paul Bailey 1999
*Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 2019
Sarah Bakewell 2012
John Banville 2007
Richard Barber FSA FRHistS 1971
Juliet Barker 2001
Pat Barker CBE 1995
Correlli Barnett CBE 1964
Damian Barr 2020
Sebastian Barry 2009
Susan Bassnett 2007
Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA 2004
Laura Bates 2018
Martin Bax 2002
Dame Mary Beard 2019
Dame Gillian Beer DBE FBA 2006
Antony Beevor 1999
*Sharmilla Beezmohun 2019
Rosalind Belben 1999
Anne Olivier Bell MBE 1984
Anthea Bell OBE 2013
Jay Bernard 2018
Emily Berry 2018
*Xandra Bingley 2019
*Robert Binyon 2000
Dea Birkett 2000
Julia Blackburn 2002
Terence Blacker 2017
Malorie Blackman OBE 2009
Sir Quentin Blake CBE RDI 2013
Ronald Blythe, Benson Medallist 1970
Elleke Boehmer 2019
* Mair Bosworth 2020
William Boyd CBE 1982
Melvyn Bragg (The Lord Bragg DL) 1971
Piers Brendon 2010
Howard Brenton 2017
Simon Brett OBE 2015
Raymond Briggs CBE 1993
Robin Briggs FBA FRHistS 1999
Hugh Brogan 1987
*Tony Brown 2020
Alan Brownjohn 1999
James Buchan 2001
Moira Buffini 2014
John Burnside 1999
*Margaret Busby OBE, Benson Medallist 2017
Jez Butterworth 2019
A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Byatt DBE) 1983
David Cairns CBE 2001
Lucy Caldwell 2018
Dame Carmen Callil DBE, Benson Medallist 2010
Sir David Cannadine FBA FSA FRHistS 1999
Vahni Capildeo 2019
John Carey FBA 1982
Peter Carey AO 1989
Ciaran Carson 2014
Miranda Carter 2011
Justin Cartwright 2002
Helen Castor 2017
David Caute JP FRHistS 1998
Glen Cavaliero 1986
Hugh Cecil 1997
Aidan Chambers 2009
Debjani Chatterjee 2019
Amit Chaudhuri 2009
Tracy Chevalier 2008
Anne Chisholm OBE 1989
Rupert Christiansen 1997
Kate Clanchy 2010
Susannah Clapp 2013
Brian Clark 1985
Gillian Clarke 2000
John Clay 1998
*Michael Codron CBE 2019
Jonathan Coe 2012
J. M. Coetzee 1988
Richard Cohen 2017
Isabel Colegate 1981
Linda Colley (Lady Cannadine CBE FBA FRHistS) 2004
Sophie Collins 2018
Cressida Connolly 2020
Tony Connor 1972
P. J. Conrad 1974
Peter Conradi 2010
David Constantine 2007
Artemis Cooper 2016
Susan Cooper 2020
Wendy Cope OBE 1992
John Cornwell 1985
Frank Cottrell Boyce 2012
Jim Crace 1999
Kevin Crossley-Holland 1998
Tony Curtis 2000
Rachel Cusk 2012
David Dabydeen 2000
William Dalrymple FRGS FRAS 1995
Richard Davenport-Hines FRHistS 2003
Andrew Davies 1996
Norman Davies CMG FBA FRHistS 2013
Paul Davies 1999
Stevie Davies 1998
Dick Davis 1981
Richard Dawkins FRS 1997
Jill Dawson 2020
April De Angelis 2020
Louis de Bernières 2006
Alain de Botton 2011
*Tim Dee 2017
Anita Desai, Benson Medallist 1978
Imtiaz Dharker 2010
David Dilks FRHistS 1986
Maura Dooley 2006
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst[12] 2015
Roddy Doyle 2003
Dame Margaret Drabble DBE 1973
Jane Draycott 2020
Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE 1999
Maureen Duffy FKC, Benson Medallist, Vice-President 1985
Sasha Dugdale 2020
Ian Duhig 2006
Katherine Duncan-Jones 1991
Douglas Dunn OBE 1981
Jane Dunn 1999
Nell Dunn 2004
Geoff Dyer 2005
David Edgar 1985
Helen Edmundson 2015
Yvvette Edwards 2020
Max Egremont (The Lord Egremont DL FSA) 2001
Menna Elfyn 2015
Inua Ellams 2018
Anne Enright 2010
Diana Evans 2020
Sir Richard Evans FBA FRHistS FLSW 1999
Bernardine Evaristo MBE 2004
Sir Richard Eyre CBE 2011
Ruth Fainlight 2007
Duncan Fallowell 2015
Moris Farhi MBE 2001
Paul Farley 2012
Sebastian Faulks CBE 1994
Lara Feigel 2018
Elaine Feinstein 1981
James Fenton FSA 1983
Adam Fergusson MEP 2009
Maggie Fergusson MBE 2007
The Hon. William Fiennes 2009
Orlando Figes 2003
Anne Fine OBE 2003
Tibor Fischer 2003
Richard Ford 2012
Aminatta Forna OBE 2012
Richard Fortey FRS 2009
Roy Foster FBA FRHistS 1992
Adam Foulds 2009
*Dan Franklin 2019
Peter Frankopan 2020
Lady Antonia Fraser DBE 2003
Robert Fraser 2007
Michael Frayn C Lit 1969
Maureen Freely 2011
Esther Freud 2019
Stephen Fry 2019
Athol Fugard 1986
John Fuller 1980
Neil Gaiman 2018
Jane Gardam OBE 2005
*Anthony Gardner 2004
Philip Gardner 1986
Alan Garner OBE 2011
Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRHistS 2005
Bamber Gascoigne 1976
Jamila Gavin 2015
*Kate Gavron 2020
Maggie Gee OBE, Vice-President 1994
Adèle Geras 2013
Amitav Ghosh 2009
Peter Gill 2019
Sir David Gilmour Bt 1990
Paul Gilroy 2016
Mark Girouard FSA Hon FRIBA 1994
Lesley Glaister 1994
The Hon. Victoria Glendinning CBE, Vice-President 1982
Julian Gloag 1970
Salena Godden 2020
*David Godwin 2020
*Lennie Goodings 2020
Edmund Gordon 2018
Lyndall Gordon 2002
Warwick Gould 1997
Grey Gowrie (The Earl of Gowrie PC) 2003
James Graham 2018
Colin Grant 2020
Linda Grant 2013
A. C. Grayling 2006
Peter Green 1956
Lavinia Greenlaw 2004
Germaine Greer 2016
John Gribbin 1999
Romesh Gunesekera 2004
Kirsty Gunn 2020
Tanika Gupta 2016
Abdulrazak Gurnah 2006
Tessa Hadley 2009
John Haffenden FBA 1986
The Lord Hague PC 2009
Daniel Hahn 2020
Sarah Hall 2016
John Halperin 1985
Georgina Hammick 2001
Christopher Hampton CBE 1976
Sir David Hare 1985
Claire Harman 2006
Richard Harries (The Rt Rev The Lord Harries of Pentregarth) 1996
Alexandra Harris 2013
Robert Harris 1996
Sir Wilson Harris 2007
Tony Harrison 1984
David Harsent 1999
Rosalind Harvey 2018
Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President 1974
Sir Max Hastings FRHistS 1996
Lady Selina Hastings 1994
Roy Hattersley (The Lord Hattersley PC) 2003
Daisy Hay 2018
Cameron Hazlehurst FRHistS 1973
*Drue Heinz Hon DBE 2002
John Hemming CMG 2013
Philip Hensher 1998
W. N. Herbert 2015
Rachel Hewitt 2018
Ella Hickson 2018
Rosemary Hill 2010
Tobias Hill 2011
Bevis Hillier 1997
Tim Hilton 1993
Henry Hitchings 2015
Peter Hobbs 2014
Eva Hoffman 2007
Ursula Holden 2010
*Andrew Holgate 2020
Tom Holland 2016
Alan Hollinghurst 1995
*Richard Hollis 2019
Richard Holmes OBE FBA 1975
Sir Michael Holroyd CBE FRHistS C Lit, President Emeritus 1968
Christopher Hope 1990
Nick Hornby 1996
Sarah Howe 2018
Kerry Hudson 2020
Kathryn Hughes FRHistS 2006
Shirley Hughes OBE 2000
Lucy Hughes-Hallett 2010
Emyr Humphreys 1995
Roland Huntford 2001
Aamer Hussein 2004
Angela Huth 1978
Samuel Hynes 1978
*Sir Nicholas Hytner 2019
Armando Iannucci 2019
Robert Icke 2018
Robert Irwin 2001
Kazuo Ishiguro OBE 1989
Ian Jack 2009
Howard Jacobson 2012
Clive James CBE AM 2010
Kathleen Jamie 2009
Deborah Jay 2005
Alan Jenkins 2002
Sir Simon Jenkins FSA 2003
Liz Jensen 2005
Catherine Johnson 2019
Linton Kwesi Johnson 2013
*Paula Johnson 2008
Jennifer Johnston 2009
Cynan Jones 2019
Steve Jones FRS 2011
Gabriel Josipovici FBA 1997
Alan Judd 1990
Margaret Jull Costa OBE 2013
Jackie Kay MBE 2002
Jonathan Keates FSA 1992
Laurence Kelly 2003
Linda Kelly 2010
Peter Kemp[13] 2015
Thomas Keneally AO 1973
A. L. Kennedy 1999
*The Duke of Kent KG 1978
Mimi Khalvati 2009
Thomas Kilroy 1972
Lucy Kirkwood 2018
Matthew Kneale 2003
Hari Kunzru CBE 2014
Hanif Kureishi CBE 2008
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE 2014
David Kynaston 2010
Olivia Laing 2019
Nick Laird 2013
John Lanchester 2002
Robin Lane Fox 1974
Lee Langley 1996
James Lasdun 2009
Bryony Lavery 2002
Mark Lawson 2015
Zachary Leader 2007
Dame Hermione Lee DBE FBA 1992
Brendan Lehane 1999
Mike Leigh OBE 2008
Rebecca Lenkiewicz 2017
Andrea Levy 2005
Deborah Levy 2017
Paul Levy 1980
Gwyneth Lewis 1999
Dame Penelope Lively DBE 1985
Samuel Lock 2001
David Lodge CBE 1976
Michael Longley CBE 1988
Roger Lonsdale FBA 1989
Edward Lucie-Smith 1964
Andrew Lycett 2010
Richard Mabey 2011
Alexander McCall Smith 2014
Fiona MacCarthy OBE 1997
Geraldine McCaughrean 2009
Val McDermid 2016
Ian McDonald AA 1970
Ian McEwan CBE 1983
Robert Macfarlane 2011
Patrick McGuinness 2019
Roger McGough CBE 2004
Patrick McGrath 2002
Jamie McKendrick 2014
Andrew McMillan 2020
Ben Macintyre 2014
Shena Mackay 1999
Rory MacLean 2007
Margaret MacMillan 2003
Candia McWilliam 1994
Brenda Maddox 1999
Sabrina Mahfouz 2018
Sir Noel Malcolm FBA 1997
David Malouf 2008
Norman Manea 2011
Alberto Manguel 2010
Philip Mansel 2010
Dame Hilary Mantel DBE, Vice-President 1990
Patrick Marber 2002
Patrick Marnham 1988
Philip Marsden 1996
Rosalind Marshall 1974
Adam Mars-Jones 2007
Yann Martel 2014
Allan Massie CBE 1982
Hisham Matar 2012
Douglas Matthews MBE FCLIP, Benson Medallist 1998
Glyn Maxwell 1999
Derwent May 1996
*Shirley May 2020
Jonathan Meades 2019
James Meek 2020
Ved Mehta 2009
Pauline Melville 2018
Edward Mendelson 2003
Jeffrey Meyers 1983
Mary Midgley 2007
China Miéville 2015
Andrew Miller 2012
Kei Miller 2018
Michael Millgate FRSC 1983
Pankaj Mishra 2008
Rohinton Mistry 2009
David Mitchell 2013
Julian Mitchell FSA 1985
Deborah Moggach 1999
Nadifa Mohamed 2018
Ray Monk 2015
Caroline Moorehead OBE 1993
Michael Morpurgo OBE 2004
Jan Morris CBE 1961
Sinéad Morrissey 2019
Blake Morrison 1988
Helen Mort 2018
Sarah Moss 2019
Kate Mosse OBE 2020
Sir Andrew Motion 1984
Sir Ferdinand Mount Bt 1991
Paul Muldoon 1981
Alice Munro C Lit 2002
Dervla Murphy 2013
Richard Murphy 1968
Daljit Nagra 2017
V. S. Naipaul (Sir Vidia Naipaul C Lit) 1962
*Susheila Nasta MBE, Benson Medallist 2019
Charles Nicholl 2005
Grace Nichols 2007
Peter Nichols 1983
Virginia Nicholson 2019
William Nicholson 1999
Adam Nicolson (The Lord Carnock FSA) 2005
The Hon. Gerard Noel 1999
Barney Norris 2018
John Julius Norwich (The Viscount Norwich CVO FSA) 1970
Edna O'Brien 2011
Sean O'Brien 2007
Bernard O'Donoghue 1999
Julia O'Faolain 1998
Andrew O'Hagan 2010
Redmond O'Hanlon 1993
Irenosen Okojie 2018
Ben Okri OBE 1997
David Olusoga 2019
*Sir Christopher Ondaatje OC CBE 2003
Michael Ondaatje OC 2012
Chibundu Onuzo 2018
Susie Orbach 2019
Charles Osborne 1996
*Ursula Owen 2020
Helen Oyeyemi 2012
Ruth Padel 1998
*Stephen Page 2019
Michael Palin 2020
Alan Palmer 1980
Peter Parker 1997
Sandeep Parmar 2020
Vinay Patel 2018
Don Paterson OBE 2004
Jill Paton Walsh CBE 1996
Brian Patten 2003
Tim Pears 2012
Sarah Perry 2018
Pascale Petit 2018
Adam Phillips 2012
Caryl Phillips 2000
Mike Phillips OBE 2000
Winsome Pinnock 2020
David Plante 2002
Piers Plowright 1998
Stephen Poliakoff CBE 1985
Max Porter 2020
David Pownall 1976
Lucy Prebble 2018
*Alexandra Pringle 2017
*Stuart Profitt 2019
(Baron) David Profumo 1995
David Pryce-Jones 1980
Philip Pullman CBE, Vice-President 2001
Isabel Quigly 1989
Craig Raine 1984
Nina Raine 2019
Ross Raisin 2018
Ian Rankin OBE, DL, FRSE 2016
Nicholas Rankin 2009
Frederic Raphael 1964
Sigrid Rausing 2020
Piers Paul Read 1972
Anne Redmon 1980
Christopher Reid 1999
Sir Christopher Ricks FBA 1970
Professor The Hon. Jane Ridley 2007
The Viscount Ridley DL FMedSci 1999
Denise Riley 2019
Gwendoline Riley 2018
William Rivière 2000
Graham Robb 1999
Andrew Roberts FRSA 2001
Michèle Roberts 1999
Robin Robertson 2010
Roger Robinson 2020
Jane Rogers 1994
Stephen Romer 2011
Michael Rosen 2006
Meg Rosoff 2013
Jacob Ross 2006
J. K. Rowling OBE 2002
Anthony Rudolf FEA 2005
Carol Rumens 1984
Katherine Rundell 2020
Sir Salman Rushdie 1983
Amy Sackville 2018
Sunjeev Sahota 2018
Lawrence Sail 1998
Edward St Aubyn 2011
William St Clair FBA 1973
*Marina Salandy-Brown FRSA 2020
Fiona Sampson MBE 2010
*Sarah Sanders 2020
Philippe Sands QC 2020
Sathnam Sanghera 2016
J. J. Scarisbrick MBE FRHistS 1969
Simon Schama 2016
Ann Schlee 1997
Michael Schmidt OBE 1993
*Patricia Schute 1991
Lawrence Scott 2019
The Rev Professor M.A. Screech FBA 1989
Roger Scruton FBA 2003
Peter Scupham 1990
Ruth Scurr 2015
Simon Sebag-Montefiore 2003
Elisa Segrave 2001
Richard Sennett 1999
Vikram Seth CBE 1994
Miranda Seymour FRSA 1996
Elif Shafak 2019
Nicholas Shakespeare 1999
Kamila Shamsie 2011
Jo Shapcott 1999
Warsan Shire 2018
Elaine Showalter 2011
Nikesh Shukla 2019
*William Sieghart 2019
Posy Simmonds MBE 2004
Helen Simpson 1996
Andrew Sinclair FRSA 1972
Iain Sinclair 2009
Adam Sisman 2015
Robert Skidelsky (The Lord Skidelsky of Tilton FBA FRHistS) 1978
Gillian Slovo 2013
Dorothea Smartt 2019
Ali Smith CBE 2007
Deborah Smith 2018
Godfrey Smith 1995
*John Saumarez Smith, Benson Medallist 1996
Zadie Smith 2002
*Nicola Solomon 2019
Stephen Sondheim 2012
Ahdaf Soueif 2002
*Wole Soyinka, Benson Medallist 1983
Frances Spalding CBE 1984
*Nicholas Spice 2019
Francis Spufford 2007
Hilary Spurling CBE 2005
John Spurling 2010
Tom Stacey 1977
Martin Stannard 1999
C. K. Stead ONZ CBE 1995
George Steiner FBA 1962
Polly Stenham 2018
Rory Stewart OBE MP 2009
Stanley Stewart 2001
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit 1972
Sir Roy Strong FSA 1999
Andrea Stuart 2014
Kate Summerscale 2010
*Tom Sutcliffe 2020
John Sutherland 1990
*David Sutton, Benson Medallist 2012
Graham Swift 1984
Meera Syal CBE 2017
Michael Symmons Roberts 2014
George Szirtes 1982
Bryan Talbot 2018
D. J. Taylor 1997
Sara Taylor 2018
Kae Tempest 2015
Adam Thirlwell 2018
Ian Thomson 2003
Rupert Thomson 2015
Jack Thorne 2020
Colin Thubron CBE, President 1969
Ann Thwaite 1987
Anthony Thwaite OBE FSA 1978
Stella Tillyard 2019
Gillian Tindall 1983
Colm Tóibín 2007
(Count) Nikolai Tolstoy 1979
Claire Tomalin, Vice-President 1976
*Boyd Tonkin, Benson Medallist 2020
Barbara Trapido 2011
Jeremy Treglown 1989
Rose Tremain CBE 1983
Lynne Truss 2004
Jenny Uglow CBE FSA, Benson Medallist 1998
*The Prince of Wales KG OM 2002
James Walvin OBE 2006
Alan Warner 2013
Dame Marina Warner FBA 1984
Val Warner 1998
Sarah Waters 2009
Fay Weldon CBE 1986
Robert Wells 1994
Stanley Wells CBE 2013
Timberlake Wertenbaker 1999
Sara Wheeler 1999
Hugh Whitemore 1998
Helen Wilcox FRSA FEA 1999
Eley Williams 2018
Hugo Williams 1988
Nigel Williams 1994
The Rt Revd The Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FLSW 2003
*Mary-Kay Wilmers, Benson Medallist 2017
A. N. Wilson 1982
Frances Wilson 2008
Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE 2005
Jeanette Winterson CBE 2016
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FMEdSci 1999
Charles Wood 1985
James Wood 2011
Michael Wood 1992
Gerard Woodward 2005
Pamela Woof 1999
Kit Wright 1997
Ann Wroe FRHistS 2007
Evie Wyld 2018
*Baroness Lola Young 2020
Adam Zamoyski FSA 2006
Theodore Zeldin CBE FBA FRHistS 1999
Philip Ziegler CVO FRHistS 1972

The * before the name denotes an Honorary Fellow. The list is online at the RSL website.[14]

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