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". A...
52 KB (2,144 words) - 18:03, 17 May 2024
Adjoa Andoh (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Bridgerton. In July 2022, Andoh became an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Andoh was born in Clifton, Bristol. Her mother, a teacher...
23 KB (2,134 words) - 13:04, 4 June 2024
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy...
72 KB (7,937 words) - 20:19, 22 May 2024
Aldous Huxley (redirect from The Defeat of Youth)
intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature...
69 KB (7,915 words) - 05:29, 1 July 2024
David Profumo (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1995. Profumo married BBC Television producer Helen Fraser, daughter of Alasdair Fraser, former...
4 KB (323 words) - 13:29, 1 July 2024
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science...
5 KB (423 words) - 15:50, 26 September 2023
shortlisted.[page needed] The candidacy of Hardy, nominated by 97 members of the Royal Society of Literature, were dismissed by the committee on the grounds...
15 KB (851 words) - 14:33, 28 March 2024
include fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE)...
41 KB (1,941 words) - 11:33, 9 April 2024
Leslie Norris (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
of Letters of the University of Glamorgan, and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters of BYU. Leslie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of...
12 KB (1,194 words) - 07:38, 15 June 2024
Olivia Laing (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Picador, 2024) Crudo (Picador, 2018) "Olivia Laing". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 4 March 2021...
16 KB (1,591 words) - 12:12, 23 June 2024
Joseph Coelho (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Coelho grew up in a tower block in Roehampton, England, the son of a single parent. He became...
16 KB (1,467 words) - 19:06, 2 July 2024
Ruth Borthwick (category Year of birth missing (living people))
an advocate for literature in the UK and internationally. In 2018, she was elected an Honorary Fellow by the Royal Society of Literature, rewarding "significant...
7 KB (588 words) - 18:15, 4 December 2023
Association". The Royal Family. 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023. "The Royal Society of Literature Council". The Royal Society of Literature. 29 May...
39 KB (2,393 words) - 20:03, 25 June 2024
Rachel Hewitt (category Alumni of Queen Mary University of London)
Hewitt was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction for this project. In 2011, Hewitt was announced as one of ten BBC Radio 3 AHRC...
9 KB (676 words) - 22:33, 25 November 2023
Polly Samson (category English people of Chinese descent)
epic poem by John Milton. In 2018, Samson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Samson's novel, A Theatre For Dreamers, was published on...
10 KB (964 words) - 00:04, 7 June 2024
Jan Carson (category Date of birth missing (living people))
won the EU Prize for Literature in 2019 – and The Raptures (2021). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Born in Ballymena...
2 KB (136 words) - 20:24, 24 August 2023
Sathnam Sanghera (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). In November 2021, his Channel 4 documentary series about race, Empire State of Mind, received...
8 KB (662 words) - 00:15, 10 May 2024
Marina Warner (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2017, she was elected president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL),...
25 KB (2,377 words) - 14:23, 15 June 2024
Andrea Levy (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Writers Prize, winner, Small Island 2005: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2010: Man Booker Prize, shortlist, The Long Song 2011: Walter...
31 KB (2,930 words) - 12:09, 24 May 2024
Kiran Millwood Hargrave (redirect from The Island at the End of Everything)
playwright and novelist. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in London. She graduated...
10 KB (967 words) - 19:16, 14 May 2024
Jenny Joseph (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
December 2021, retrieved 21 August 2021 "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010...
11 KB (1,016 words) - 01:21, 6 December 2023
James Daunt (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Guardian list of the top 100 people in the British books industry. Daunt was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. In June...
8 KB (606 words) - 02:37, 29 June 2024
Anita Desai (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight. She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London...
17 KB (1,511 words) - 15:45, 3 July 2024
James Runcie (category English people of Scottish descent)
filmmaker, television producer and playwright. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Bath Spa University and was Commissioning...
12 KB (1,138 words) - 16:29, 6 April 2024
Cressida Connolly (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Radio 4's A Good Read. In 2020, Connolly was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her third novel, Bad Relations, was published in 2022. The...
8 KB (712 words) - 17:34, 22 October 2023
James Graham (playwright) (redirect from A History of Falling Things)
elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. In January 2019, Graham's life and work was the subject of an in-depth...
17 KB (1,046 words) - 19:42, 20 June 2024
Francis Spufford (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987–1990 for Chatto & Windus. Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund...
8 KB (877 words) - 22:49, 2 July 2024
The Royal Society (Thai: ราชบัณฑิตยสภา; RTGS: Ratchabandittayasapha; pronounced [râːt.t͡ɕʰā.bān.dìt.tā.já(ʔ).sā.pʰāː]) is the national academy of Thailand...
21 KB (1,697 words) - 10:33, 24 June 2024
Emma Dabiri (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
My Hair, was published in 2019. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Dabiri was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and...
16 KB (1,244 words) - 09:58, 27 June 2024
Richard Adams (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
publication of his second novel, Shardik, he left the Civil Service to become a full-time author. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in...
17 KB (1,607 words) - 09:53, 5 June 2024