Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) är Storbritanniens äldsta litterära sällskap. Det grundades 1820 av kung Georg IV för att "belöna litterära förtjänster och uppmuntra litterär talang" (engelska: "reward literary merit and excite literary talent"). Sällskapets förste preses var Thomas Burgess, som senare blev biskop av Salisbury. Sällskapet har 450 ledamöter som kan lägga bokstäverna FRSL efter sina namn. Vanligen utses fjorton ledamöter årligen.

Fasaden till Somerset House och kyrkan St Mary le Strand på en bild från 1836.

Några tidigare ledamöter var Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw och Arthur Koestler. Nyinvalda ledamöter skriver in sina namn i den officiella matrikeln med antingen Lord Byrons penna eller med Dickens fjäderpenna.

Sällskapet ger ut en årlig publikation och administrerar ett flertal litterära priser och utmärkelser. Det kan också utse förtjänta författare till Companion of the Royal Society of Literature.

Sällskapet har lokaler i Somerset House i London.

Presidenter

1820–1832 Biskop Thomas Burgess
1832–1833 George Agar-Ellis, 1:e baron Dover
1834–1845 F.J. Robinson, 1:e viscount Goderich
1845–1849 Henry Hallam
1849–1851 Spencer Compton, 2:e markis av Northampton
1851–1856 George Howard, 7:e earl av Carlisle
1856–1876 Biskop Connop Thirlwall
1876–1884 Prins Leopold
1885–1893 Sir Patrick Colquhoun
1893–1920 Hardinge Giffard, 1:e earl av Halsbury
1921–1945 Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1:e markis av Crewe
1946–1947 Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2:e earl av Lytton
1947–1982 Richard Austen Butler
1983–1988 Sir Angus Wilson
1988–2003 Roy Jenkins
2003–2008 Sir Michael Holroyd
2008– Colin Thubron

Nuvarande ledamöter

Ledamot	Invald år
*Julia Abel Smith DL	2008
Peter Ackroyd CBE	1984
Richard Adams	1975
Donald Adamson JP FSA FRHistS	1983
Fleur Adcock CNZM OBE	1984
Diran Adebayo	2006
John Agard	2007
Patience Agbabi	2017
Brian Aldiss OBE	1990
Keith Alldritt	1978
Fergus Allen CB	2000
David Almond	2011
*David Altaras	1996
Martin Amis	1983
Mark Amory	1996
Tahmima Anam	2017
Carole Angier	2002
Kwame Anthony Appiah	2017
Lisa Appignanesi OBE	2015
Simon Armitage CBE	2004
Karen Armstrong	2005
Bruce Arnold OBE	1994
Geoffrey Ashe	1963
Michael Asher	1996
Rosemary Ashton OBE FBA	1999
Nadeem Aslam	2010
Diana Athill OBE	2001
Kate Atkinson MBE	2010
Margaret Atwood CC FRSC C Lit	2010
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE	1991
Paul Bailey	1999
Sarah Bakewell	2012
John Banville	2007
Richard Barber FSA FRHistS	1971
Juliet Barker	2001
Pat Barker CBE	1995
Correlli Barnett CBE	1964
Sebastian Barry	2009
Susan Bassnett	2007
Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA	2004
Martin Bax	2002
Dame Gillian Beer DBE FBA	2006
Antony Beevor	1999
Rosalind Belben	1999
Anne Olivier Bell MBE	1984
Anthea Bell OBE	2013
Bernard Bergonzi	1984
*James Berry OBE	2007
Christopher Bigsby	2000
*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
William Boyd CBE	1982
Melvyn Bragg (The Lord Bragg DL)	1971
Piers Brendon	2010
Howard Brenton	2017
Raymond Briggs CBE	1993
Robin Briggs FBA FRHistS	1999
Hugh Brogan	1987
Alan Brownjohn	1999
James Buchan	2001
Moira Buffini	2014
John Burnside	1999
*Margaret Busby OBE, Benson Medallist	2017
A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Byatt DBE)	1983
David Cairns CBE	2001
Dame Carmen Callil DBE, Benson Medallist	2010
Sir David Cannadine FBA FSA FRHistS	1999
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
Amit Chaudhuri	2009
Tracy Chevalier	2008
Anne Chisholm OBE	1989
Rupert Christiansen	1997
Kate Clanchy	2010
Susannah Clapp	2013
Gillian Clarke	2000
John Clay	1998
Jonathan Coe	2012
J.M. Coetzee	1988
Morton N. Cohen	1996
Richard Cohen	2017
Isabel Colegate	1981
Linda Colley (Lady Cannadine CBE FBA FRHistS)	2004
Tony Connor	1972
P. J. Conrad	1974
Peter Conradi	2010
David Constantine	2007
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
Louis de Bernières	2006
Alain de Botton	2011
*Tim Dee	2017
Anita Desai, Benson Medallist	1978
Imtiaz Dharker	2010
Peter Dickinson OBE	1999
David Dilks FRHistS	1986
Jenny Diski	1999
Maura Dooley	2006
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst^[1]	2015
Roddy Doyle	2003
Dame Margaret Drabble DBE	1973
Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE	1999
Maureen Duffy FKC, Benson Medallist, Vice President	1985
Ian Duhig	2006
Katherine Duncan-Jones	1991
Helen Dunmore	1997
Douglas Dunn OBE	1981
Jane Dunn	1999
Nell Dunn	2004
Geoff Dyer	2005
David Edgar	1985
Helen Edmundson	2015
Max Egremont (The Lord Egremont DL FSA)	2001
Menna Elfyn	2015
Anne Enright	2010
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
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
Roy Fisher	2005
Richard Ford	2012
Aminatta Forna OBE	2012
Margaret Forster	1974
Richard Fortey FRS	2009
Roy Foster FBA FRHistS	1992
Adam Foulds	2009
Lady Antonia Fraser DBE	2003
Robert Fraser	2007
Michael Frayn C Lit	1969
Maureen Freely	2011
Athol Fugard	1986
John Fuller	1980
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
Maggie Gee OBE, Vice-President	1994
Adèle Geras	2013
Amitav Ghosh	2009
Sir David Gilmour Bt	1990
Mark Girouard FSA Hon FRIBA	1994
Lesley Glaister	1994
The Hon Victoria Glendinning CBE, Vice-President	1982
Julian Gloag	1970
Magdalen Goffin	1980
Lyndall Gordon	2002
Warwick Gould	1997
Grey Gowrie (The Earl of Gowrie PC)	2003
Linda Grant	2013
A. C. Grayling	2006
Peter Green	1956
Lavinia Greenlaw	2004
John Gribbin	1999
Romesh Gunesekera	2004
Abdulrazak Gurnah	2006
Tessa Hadley	2009
John Haffenden FBA	1986
The Lord Hague PC	2009
John Halperin	1985
Georgina Hammick	2001
Christopher Hampton CBE	1976
Barbara Hardy FBA	1997
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
Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President	1974
Sir Max Hastings FRHistS	1996
Lady Selina Hastings	1994
Roy Hattersley (The Lord Hattersley PC)	2003
Cameron Hazlehurst FRHistS	1973
Shirley Hazzard	1998
Tim Heald	2000
*Drue Heinz Hon DBE	2002
John Hemming CMG	2013
Philip Hensher	1998
W.N. Herbert	2015
Sir Geoffrey Hill	1972
Rosemary Hill	2010
Tobias Hill	2011
Bevis Hillier	1997
Tim Hilton	1993
Barry Hines	1977
Henry Hitchings	2015
Eva Hoffman	2007
Ursula Holden	2010
Alan Hollinghurst	1995
Richard Holmes OBE FBA	1975
Sir Michael Holroyd CBE FRHistS C Lit, President Emeritus	1968
Hugh Honour FBA	1972
Christopher Hope	1990
Nick Hornby	1996
Sir Alistair Horne CBE	1968
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
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
Linton Kwesi Johnson	2013
*Paula Johnson	2008
Jennifer Johnston	2009
Steve Jones FRS	2011
Jenny Joseph	1999
Gabriel Josipovici FBA	1997
Alan Judd	1990
Margaret Jull Costa	2013
Jackie Kay MBE	2002
Jonathan Keates FSA	1992
Laurence Kelly	2003
Linda Kelly	2010
Peter Kemp ^[2]	2015
Thomas Keneally AO	1973
A. L. Kennedy	1999
*HRH The Duke of Kent KG	1978
Mimi Khalvati	2009
Thomas Kilroy	1972
Matthew Kneale	2003
Shiv K. Kumar	1978
Hari Kunzru CBE	2014
Hanif Kureishi CBE	2008
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE	2014
David Kynaston	2010
Nick Laird	2013
John Lanchester	2002
Robin Lane Fox	1974
Lee Langley	1996
James Lasdun	2009
Bryony Lavery	2002
Zachary Leader	2007
Dame Hermione Lee DBE FBA	1992
Brendan Lehane	1999
Mike Leigh OBE	2008
Rebecca Lenkiewicz	2017
Laurence Lerner	1984
Andrea Levy	2005
Deborah Levy	2017
Paul Levy	1980
Gwyneth Lewis	1999
Jeremy Lewis	1992
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
Fiona MacCarthy OBE	1997
Geraldine McCaughrean	2009
Ian McDonald AA	1970
Ian McEwan CBE	1983
Robert Macfarlane	2011
Roger McGough CBE	2004
Patrick McGrath	2002
Ben Macintyre	2014
Shena Mackay	1999
Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA	1977
Rory MacLean	2007
Margaret MacMillan	2003
Candia McWilliam	1994
Brenda Maddox	1999
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
Hishan Matar	2012
Douglas Matthews MBE FCLIP, Benson Medallist	1998
Glyn Maxwell	1999
Derwent May	1996
Ved Mehta	2009
Edward Mendelson	2003
Jeffrey Meyers	1983
Mary Midgley	2007
China Miéville	2015
Andrew Miller	2012
Michael Millgate FRSC	1983
Pankaj Mishra	2008
Rohinton Mistry	2009
David Mitchell	2013
Julian Mitchell FSA	1985
Deborah Moggach	1999
Ray Monk	2015
Caroline Moorehead OBE	1993
Michael Morpurgo OBE	2004
Jan Morris CBE	1961
Blake Morrison	1988
Nicholas Mosley (The Lord Ravensdale MC)	1980
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
Venetia Newall FSA FRGS	1980
Charles Nicholl	2005
Grace Nichols	2007
Peter Nichols	1983
William Nicholson	1999
Adam Nicolson (The Lord Carnock FSA)	2005
The Hon Gerard Noel	1999
John Julius Norwich (The Viscount Norwich CVO FSA)	1970
Robert Nye	1977
Edna O'Brien	2011
Sean O'Brien	2007
Bernard O'Donoghue	1999
Julia O'Faolain	1998
Andrew O'Hagan	2010
Redmond O'Hanlon	1993
Ben Okri OBE	1997
*Sir Christopher Ondaatje OC CBE	2003
Michael Ondaatje OC	2012
Charles Osborne	1996
Helen Oyeyemi	2012
Ruth Padel	1998
Alan Palmer	1980
Peter Parker	1997
Don Paterson OBE	2004
Jill Paton Walsh CBE	1996
Brian Patten	2003
Tim Pears	2012
Humphrey Phelps	1977
Adam Phillips	2012
Caryl Phillips	2000
Mike Phillips OBE	2000
David Plante	2002
Piers Plowright	1998
Stephen Poliakoff CBE	1985
David Pownall	1976
(Baron) David Profumo	1995
David Pryce-Jones	1980
Philip Pullman CBE, Vice-President	2001
Isabel Quigly	1989
Craig Raine	1984
Ian Rankin OBE, DL, FRSE	2016
Nicholas Rankin	2009
Frederic Raphael	1964
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
William Rivière	2000
Graham Robb	1999
Andrew Roberts FRSA	2001
Michèle Roberts	1999
Robin Robertson	2010
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
Sir Salman Rushdie	1983
Lawrence Sail	1998
Edward St Aubyn	2011
The Hon Giles St Aubyn LVO	1964
William St Clair FBA	1973
Fiona Sampson MBE	2010
J. J. Scarisbrick MBE FRHistS	1969
Ann Schlee	1997
Michael Schmidt OBE	1993
*Patricia Schute	1991
The Rev Professor M.A. Screech FBA	1989
Roger Scruton FBA	2003
Peter Scupham	1990
Simon Sebag-Montefiore	2003
Elisa Segrave	2001
Richard Sennett	1999
Vikram Seth CBE	1994
Miranda Seymour FRSA	1996
Sir Peter Shaffer CBE	1978
Nicholas Shakespeare	1999
Kamila Shamsie	2011
Jo Shapcott	1999
Norman Sherry	1985
Elaine Showalter	2011
Posy Simmonds MBE	2004
Helen Simpson	1996
Andrew Sinclair FRSA	1972
Clive Sinclair	1983
Iain Sinclair	2009
Adam Sisman	2015
Robert Skidelsky (The Lord Skidelsky of Tilton FBA FRHistS)	1978
Gillian Slovo	2013
Ali Smith CBE	2007
Godfrey Smith	1995
*John Saumarez Smith, Benson Medallist	1996
Zadie Smith	2002
Stephen Sondheim	2012
Ahdaf Soueif	2002
*Wole Soyinka, Benson Medallist	1983
Frances Spalding CBE	1984
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
Rory Stewart OBE MP	2009
Stanley Stewart	2001
Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit	1972
Sir Roy Strong FSA	1999
Kate Summerscale	2010
*David Sutton, Benson Medallist	2012
Virginia Surtees	1978
John Sutherland	1990
Graham Swift	1984
Meera Syal CBE	2017
George Szirtes	1982
D. J. Taylor	1997
Emma Tennant (The Hon Mrs Timothy Owens)	1982
Hugh Thomas (The Lord Thomas of Swynnerton FRHistS)	1997
Ian Thomson	2003
Rupert Thomson	2015
Colin Thubron CBE, President	1969
Ann Thwaite	1987
Anthony Thwaite OBE FSA	1978
Gillian Tindall	1983
Colm Tóibín	2007
Arnold Trevor Tolley	1998
(Count) Nikolai Tolstoy	1979
Claire Tomalin, Vice-President	1976
Barbara Trapido	2011
Jeremy Treglown	1989
Rose Tremain CBE	1983
William Trevor C Lit Hon KBE	1976
Lynne Truss	2004
Eva Tucker	2009
Jenny Uglow CBE FSA, Benson Medallist	1998
*HRH The Prince of Wales KG OM	2002
James Walvin OBE	2006
Dame Marina Warner FBA	1984
Val Warner	1998
Sarah Waters	2009
Daniel Weissbort	2008
Fay Weldon CBE	1986
Robert Wells	1994
Stanley Wells CBE	2013
Timberlake Wertenbaker	1999
Sir Arnold Wesker	1985
Sara Wheeler	1999
Hugh Whitemore	1998
Helen Wilcox FRSA FEA	1999
Hugo Williams	1988
Nigel Williams	1994
The Rt Revd The Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FLSW	2003
A. N. Wilson	1982
*Mary-Kay Wilmers, Benson Medallist	2017
Frances Wilson	2008
Dame Jacqueline Wilson DBE	2005
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
Francis Wyndham	1999
Adam Zamoyski FSA	2006
Theodore Zeldin CBE FBA FRHistS	1999
Philip Ziegler CVO FRHistS	1972

före namnet indikerar en hedersmedlem. Den aktuella listan finns på RSL:s hemsida.^[3]

Källor

^ Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Arkiverad 11 september 2015 hämtat från the Wayback Machine.
^ ”Peter Kemp”. Arkiverad från originalet den 13 juli 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170713070700/http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/peter-kemp/. Läst 10 juli 2017.
^ ”Current RSL Fellows”. Royal Society of Literature. Arkiverad från originalet den 6 februari 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190206015823/https://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/. Läst 25 maj 2017.

Externa länkar

The Royal Society of Literatures webbplats (engelska)
RSL:s årsbok (engelska)
Litterära priser och utmärkelser (engelska)

[1] Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Arkiverad 11 september 2015 hämtat från the Wayback Machine.

[2] ”Peter Kemp”. Arkiverad från originalet den 13 juli 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170713070700/http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/peter-kemp/. Läst 10 juli 2017.

[3] ”Current RSL Fellows”. Royal Society of Literature. Arkiverad från originalet den 6 februari 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190206015823/https://rsliterature.org/fellows/current-fellows/. Läst 25 maj 2017.

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