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 charity...
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list of royal societies (by royal charter) listed alphabetically with the date of founding: Royal Academy, founded 1768 Royal Aeronautical Society 1866...
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The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy...
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11...
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Polly Samson (category English people of Chinese descent)
was published in 2015. In 2018, Samson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel A Theatre For Dreamers was published on 2 April...
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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...
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The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; French: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French:...
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include fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Edmund de Waal (category Academics of the University of Westminster)
the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De...
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Mary-Kay Wilmers (category Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford)
of the London Review of Books from 1992 to 2021, and she remains consulting editor. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature...
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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...
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Catherine Nixey (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
focusing on the destruction of temples, art, and literature by early Christians. Her debut book won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction...
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Hilary Mantel (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Award for Literary Achievement 2020 Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006...
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Association". The Royal Family. 20 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023. "The Royal Society of Literature Council". The Royal Society of Literature. 29 May...
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Bernardine Evaristo (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Booker. Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first...
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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...
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Miranda Seymour (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
the Royal Society of Arts. She elected to resign from the Royal Society of Literature in December 2023. She was formerly married to Andrew Sinclair, and...
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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...
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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...
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William Dalrymple (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
in 2002 by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for his outstanding contribution to travel literature. The television series Stones of the Raj and Indian...
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Colin Thubron (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
President of the Royal Society of Literature. Thubron is the son of Brigadier Gerald Thubron and of Evelyn (née Dryden), a collateral descendant of the poet...
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Barbara Pym (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
public eye, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Pym was interviewed for an episode of Desert Island Discs on 1 August 1978, which...
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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...
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James Kirkup (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Edward Raeburn, and Ivy B. Summerforest. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. James Kirkup was brought up in South Shields, England...
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Desmond Hawkins (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
1963 Birthday Honours Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Bristol 1974 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1977 In 1998 he was given a Wildscreen...
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Jasper Ridley (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Story of England’s Terror (2001) A Brief History of The Tudor Age (2002) "Jasper Ridley", Fellows Remembered, The Royal Society of Literature Obituary...
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Michael Holroyd (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
president of the Royal Society of Literature from 2003 to 2008, and was knighted in the 2007 New Year Honours List. Holroyd is a patron of Dignity in Dying...
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