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The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by King George Image:IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, w]]ho later became the Bishop of Salisbury. There are 450 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature (generally 14 new Fellows are named annually), who earn the privilege of using the post-nominal letters FRSL.

Past Fellows include Coleridge, Yeats, Kipling, Thomas Hardy, and George Bernard Shaw; today's include Chinua Achebe, Antonia Fraser, Athol Fugard, Doris Lessing, V.S. Naipaul, Harold Pinter, Peter Dickinson, and Tom Stoppard. A newly created Fellow inscribes his or her name on the official roll using either Byron's pen or Dickens' quill.

The Society has an annual magazine, RSL, and administers a number of literary prizes and awards, including the Ondaatje Prize, the Jerwood Awards, and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize. It can confer the honour of Companion of Literature for writers of particular note. It also awards the Benson Medal for lifetime service in the field of literature.

The Society is based at Somerset House in London.

Presidents

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Current Fellows

  • Dannie Abse
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Peter Ackroyd CBE
  • Richard Adams
  • Donald Adamson
  • Fleur Adcock OBE
  • Diran Adebayo
  • John Agard
  • Brian Aldiss OBE
  • Keith Alldritt
  • Fergus Allen CB
  • Martin Amis
  • Mark Amory
  • Carole Angier
  • The Marquess of Anglesey
  • Anthony Rudolf
  • John Arden
  • Simon Armitage
  • Karen Armstrong
  • Bruce Arnold OBE
  • Geoffrey Ashe
  • Michael Asher
  • Rosemary Ashton OBE FBA
  • Diana Athill
  • Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
  • Paul Bailey
  • Beryl Bainbridge (Dame Beryl Bainbridge)
  • Michael Baldwin
  • Richard Barber
  • Sebastian Barker
  • Juliet Barker
  • Pat Barker CBE
  • Frank Barlow CBE FBA
  • Correlli Barnett CBE
  • Stan Barstow
  • Jacques Barzun
  • Jonathan Bate CBE FBA
  • Nina Bawden CBE
  • Martin Bax
  • John Bayley CBE FBA
  • CA Bayly FBA
  • Gillian Beer
  • Antony Beevor
  • Rosalind Belben
  • Anne Olivier Bell
  • Bernard Bergonzi
  • Elizabeth Berridge
  • James Berry
  • Christopher Bigsby
  • Robert Binyon
  • Dea Birkett
  • Julia Blackburn
  • Ronald Blythe
  • James T. Boulton FBA
  • William Boyd CBE
  • James Brabazon
  • Melvyn Bragg (Lord Bragg)
  • Robin Briggs
  • Raymond Briggs
  • Michael Brock CBE
  • Hugh Brogan
  • Anita Brookner CBE
  • Alan Brownjohn
  • James Buchan
  • Brian Burland
  • John Burnside
  • Marilyn Butler FBA
  • A.S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Byatt)
  • David Cairns
  • Philip Callow
  • David Cannadine FBA
  • Peter Carey
  • John Carey FBA
  • Sir Raymond Carr FBA
  • Justin Cartwright
  • David Caute
  • Glen Cavaliero
  • Hugh Cecil
  • Anne Chisholm
  • Rupert Christiansen
  • Gillian Clarke
  • John Clay
  • Morton N. Cohen
  • Isabel Colegate
  • Linda Colley FBA
  • Tony Connor
  • Robert Conquest CMG OBE
  • P.J. Conrad
  • David Constantine
  • Wendy Cope
  • John Cornwell
  • Brian Cox CBE
  • Jim Crace
  • Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Tony Curtis
  • David Dabydeen
  • William Dalrymple
  • Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Lionel Davidson
  • Paul Davies
  • Stevie Davies
  • Andrew Davies
  • Dick Davis
  • Richard Dawkins FRS
  • Anita Desai
  • Peter Dickinson
  • David Dilks
  • Jenny Diski
  • Maura Dooley
  • Roddy Doyle
  • Margaret Drabble CBE
  • Carol Ann Duffy CBE
  • Maureen Duffy
  • Ian Duhig
  • Katherine Duncan-Jones
  • Helen Dunmore
  • Nell Dunn
  • Jane Dunn
  • Douglas Dunn OBE
  • Geoff Dyer
  • David Edgar
  • Max Egremont (Lord Egremont DL)
  • Prof. Richard J. Evans FBA
  • Bernardine Evaristo
  • Richard Faber (Sir Richard Faber KCVO CMG)
  • Julian Fane
  • U.A. Fanthorpe CBE
  • Moris Farhi MBE
  • Sebastian Faulks CBE
  • Elaine Feinstein
  • James Fenton
  • Maggie Fergusson
  • Orlando Figes
  • Anne Fine OBE
  • Tibor Fischer
  • Roy Fisher
  • Michael Foot
  • Margaret Forster
  • Roy Foster FBA FRHistS
  • Dick Francis CBE
  • Antonia Fraser CBE
  • Robert Fraser
  • Michael Frayn
  • Brian Friel
  • Athol Fugard
  • John Fuller
  • P.N. Furbank
  • Paul Fussell
  • Nicholas Gage
  • Mavis Gallant CC
  • Jane Gardam
  • Philip Gardner
  • Timothy Garton Ash CMG
  • Bamber Gascoigne
  • Norman Gash CBE FBA
  • Maggie Gee
  • Martin Gilbert (Sir Martin Gilbert CBE)
  • David Gilmour
  • Lesley Glaister
  • Victoria Glendinning CBE, Vice-President
  • Julian Gloag
  • Magdalen Goffin
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Lyndall Gordon
  • Warwick Gould
  • Grey Gowrie (The Earl of Gowrie)
  • Simon Gray
  • A.C. Grayling
  • Peter Green
  • Lavinia Greenlaw
  • John Gribbin
  • John Gross
  • Romesh Gunesekera
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • John Haffenden
  • John Halperin
  • Georgina Hammick
  • Christopher Hampton CBE
  • James Harding
  • Barbara Hardy
  • David Hare (Sir David Hare)
  • Claire Harman
  • Richard Harries (The Rt Revd Richard Harries)
  • Robert Harris
  • Wilson Harris
  • Tony Harrison
  • David Harsent
  • Ronald Harwood CBE
  • Selina Hastings
  • Max Hastings
  • Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
  • John Haylock
  • Cameron Hazlehurst
  • Shirley Hazzard
  • Tim Heald
  • Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH MBE)
  • Edna Healey (Lady Healey)
  • Philip Hensher
  • Dominic Hibberd
  • Christopher Hibbert MC
  • Geoffrey Hill
  • Reginald Hill
  • Bevis Hillier
  • Tim Hilton
  • Barry Hines
  • Russell Hoban
  • Mary Hocking
  • Eva Hoffman
  • Richard Hoggart
  • Alan Hollinghurst
  • Richard Holmes OBE FBA
  • Sir Michael Holroyd CBE
  • Park Honan
  • Hugh Honour FBA
  • Christopher Hope
  • John Horden FSA
  • Nick Hornby
  • Sir Alistair Horne CBE
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE
  • Philip Howard
  • Kathryn Hughes
  • Shirley Hughes OBE
  • Emyr Humphreys
  • Roland Huntford
  • Aamer Hussein
  • Angela Huth
  • Samuel Hynes
  • Mick Imlah
  • Robert Irwin
  • Kazuo Ishiguro OBE
  • P.D. James (Baroness James of Holland Park OBE JP)
  • Deborah Jay
  • Alan Jenkins
  • Elizabeth Jenkins OBE
  • Liz Jensen
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE
  • Jenny Joseph
  • Professor Gabriel Josipovici
  • Elsa Joubert
  • Alan Judd
  • P.J. Kavanagh
  • Jackie Kay
  • Jonathan Keates
  • H.R.F. Keating
  • John Kegan (Sir John Kegan OBE FRHistS)
  • Laurence Kelly
  • Linda Kelly
  • Thomas Keneally
  • A.L. Kennedy
  • Ludovic Kennedy (Sir Ludovic Kennedy)
  • Frank Kermode (Sir Frank Kermode FBA)
  • Thomas Kilroy
  • Francis King CBE
  • Matthew Kneale
  • Shiv K. Kumar
  • John Lanchester
  • Robin Lane Fox
  • Lee Langley
  • Bryony Lavery
  • Zachary Leader
  • Hermione Lee CBE FBA
  • Brendan Lehane
  • Laurence Lerner
  • Michael Levey (Sir Michael Levey LVO FBA)
  • Paul Levy
  • Andrea Levy
  • Naomi Lewis
  • Jeremy Lewis
  • Gwyneth Lewis
  • R.P. Lister
  • Penelope Lively CBE
  • Samuel Lock
  • David Lodge CBE
  • Michael Longley
  • Roger Lonsdale FBA
  • Edward Lowbury OBE
  • Edward Lucie-Smith
  • Fiona MacCarthy
  • George MacDonald Fraser OBE
  • Ian McDonald AA
  • Ian McEwan
  • Roger McGough CBE
  • Patrick McGrath
  • Shena Mackay
  • Rory Maclean
  • Margaret MacMillan
  • Candia McWilliam
  • Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA
  • Brenda Maddo (Lady Maddox)
  • Noel Malcolm FBA
  • Michael Mallett
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Patrick Marber
  • E.A. Markham
  • Patrick Marnham
  • Philip Marsden
  • Rosalind Marshall
  • Allan Massie
  • Douglas Matthews FLA
  • Glyn Maxwell
  • Derwent May
  • Ernest Mehew
  • Edward Mendelson
  • Jeffrey Meyers
  • James Michie
  • Diane Middlebrook
  • Stanley Middleton
  • Mary Midgeley
  • Karl Miller
  • Michael Millgate
  • Adrian Mitchell
  • Julian Mitchell
  • Deborah Moggach
  • Caroline Moorehead OBE
  • Geoffrey Moorhouse
  • Professor Edwin Morgan OBE
  • Michael Morpurgo OBE, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
  • Jan Morris CBE
  • Blake Morrison
  • John Mortimer CBE QC (Sir John Mortimer)
  • Nicholas Mosley MC
  • Andrew Motion
  • Ferdinand Mount
  • Paul Muldoon
  • Alice Munro
  • Richard Murphy
  • V.S. Naipaul (Sir Vidia Naipaul C Lit)
  • Venetia Newall FSA
  • Charles Nicholl
  • Grace Nichols
  • Peter Nichols
  • William Nicholson
  • Adam Nicolson
  • Vivien Noakes
  • Gerard Noel
  • David Nokes
  • Leslie Norris
  • John Julius Norwich
  • Robert Nye
  • Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • Sean O’Brien
  • Kathleen Odell (Mrs B.K. D’Alton)
  • Bernard O’Donoghue
  • Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury)
  • Julia O’Faolain
  • Redmond O’Hanlon
  • Ben Okri OBE
  • Charles Osborne
  • Ewald Osers FIL
  • Ruth Padel
  • Alan Palmer
  • Peter Parker
  • Don Paterson
  • Jill Paton Walsh
  • Brian Patten
  • Catherine Peters
  • Humphrey Phelps
  • Mike Phillips
  • Caryl Phillips
  • Harold Pinter CBE CH C Lit
  • David Plante
  • Alan Plater
  • Piers Plowright
  • Stephen Poliakoff
  • Peter Porter
  • David Pownall
  • David Profumo
  • David Pryce-Jones
  • Philip Pullman CBE
  • Isabel Quigly
  • Jonathan Raban
  • Craig Raine
  • Frederic Raphael
  • Piers Paul Read
  • Anne Redmon
  • Joan Rees
  • Christopher Reid
  • Ruth Rendell (Baroness Rendell of Babergh CBE)
  • Christopher Ricks FBA
  • Jane Ridley
  • Matt Ridley
  • William Riviere
  • Graham Robb
  • Andrew Roberts
  • Miss Michele Roberts
  • Jane Rogers
  • Kenneth Rose CBE
  • Jacob Ross
  • JK Rowling
  • Anthony Rudolf
  • Carol Rumens
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Lawrence Sail
  • J.J. Scarisbrick
  • Ann Schlee
  • Michael Schmidt
  • Michael Screech (The Rev Professor M.A. Screech FBA)
  • Roger Scruton
  • Peter Scupham
  • Simon Sebag-Montefiore
  • Richard Sennett
  • Vikram Seth
  • Miranda Seymour
  • Sir Peter Shaffer CBE
  • Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Jo Shapcott
  • Norman Sherry
  • Posy Simmonds
  • Simon Jenkins (Sir Simon Jenkins)
  • Helen Simpson
  • Andrew Sinclair
  • Clive Sinclair
  • Robert Skidelsky
  • Zadie Smith
  • Lacey Baldwin Smith
  • Godfrey Smith
  • Mary Soames (The Lady Soames DBE)
  • Ahdaf Soueif
  • Frances Spalding CBE
  • Francis Spufford
  • Hilary Spurling
  • Giles St Aubyn LVO
  • William St Clair
  • Norman St John-Stevas (The Rt Hon Lord St John of Fawsley)
  • Tom Stacey
  • Jon Stallworthy
  • Martin Stannard
  • C.K. Stead CBE
  • George Steiner
  • Stanley Stewart
  • Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit
  • Roy Strong (Sir Roy Strong)
  • Virginia Surtees
  • John Sutherland
  • Graham Swift
  • George Szirtes
  • D.J. Taylor
  • Emma Tennant
  • Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton)
  • Ian Thomson
  • Colin Thubron
  • Anthony Thwaite OBE
  • Ann Thwaite
  • Gillian Tindall
  • A.T. Tolley
  • Nikolai Tolstoy
  • Claire Tomalin
  • Sue Townsend
  • Jeremy Treglown
  • Rose Tremain
  • Raleigh Trevelyan
  • William Trevor KBE C Lit
  • Lynne Truss
  • Jenny Uglow
  • Barry Unsworth
  • Edward Upward
  • Peter Vansittart
  • James Walvin
  • Marina Warner
  • Val Warner
  • Keith Waterhouse CBE
  • Fay Weldon CBE
  • Robert Wells
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker
  • Arnold Wesker
  • Sara Wheeler
  • Hugh Whitemore
  • Helen Wilcox
  • Hugo Williams
  • Nigel Williams
  • A.N. Wilson
  • Jacqueline Wilson
  • Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS
  • Charles Wood
  • Michael Wood
  • Gerard Woodward
  • Pamela Woof
  • Andrew Wright
  • Kit Wright
  • Francis Wyndham
  • Adam Zamoyski
  • Theodore Zeldin OBE
  • Philip Ziegler CVO
  • Honorary Fellows
  • David Altaras
  • Jill Balcon (Mrs C. Day-Lewis)
  • Umberto Eco
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor (Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor C Lit DSO OBE)
  • Anthony Gardner
  • Robert Gavron (Lord Gavron CBE)
  • Martyn Goff CBE
  • Gunter Grass
  • Vaclav Havel
  • Seamus Heaney C Lit
  • Mrs Drue Heinz DBE
  • Eric Hobsbawm
  • HRH The Duke of Kent
  • Christopher Ondaatje (Sir Christopher Ondaatje CBE)
  • Vernon Scannell
  • Patricia Schute
  • John Saumarez Smith
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Ben Sonnenberg
  • Wole Soyinka


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