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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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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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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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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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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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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William Lassell (redirect from Discoverer of Umbriel)
Royal Medal in 1858. Lassell was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He was furthermore elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society...
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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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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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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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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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Paul Bailey (British writer) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
"The Limitations of Despair", first published in The Listener magazine. Bailey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Bailey...
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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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Jane Dunn (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
is a British author. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born Jane Thesen, daughter of David and Ellinor Thesen, in Durban, South...
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Deborah Smith (translator) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
research fellow at SOAS. In June 2018 Smith was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. In an article published in...
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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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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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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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Helen Castor (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Insecurity, published in 2018. Castor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. In 2022 Castor was chosen alongside four other 'superb...
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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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Kiran Millwood Hargrave (redirect from The Island at the End of Everything)
2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in Surrey. She is of Indian descent on her mother's...
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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...
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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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Isabella Hammad (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
of Palestine, driven by questions of identity and belonging." It was shortlisted for the 2024 Encore Award, given by the Royal Society of Literature to...
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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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Polly Morland (redirect from The Society of Timid Souls)
given by the Royal Society of Literature for "to authors engaged on their first major commissioned works of non-fiction". The book is a study of courage and...
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Hermione Lee (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, daughter of Benjamin Lee (1922-2019), of Polish and...
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Joseph Coelho (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, he was announced the winner of the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The...
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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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Aldous Huxley bibliography (category Bibliographies of English writers)
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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