Royal Society of Literature

BR was made a Fellow of the University of Wales at Cardiff in 1982, received an Honorary DLitt from the same institution in 1991, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in...

BB was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...

Maureen Duffy was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1985. She was also granted life membership of the Society of Authors in recognition of her work for Public Lending Right.

HW 's remarkable popularity—as an academic scholar whose name was well-known in non-academic, cultivated households—went hand in hand with some scholarly condemnation. She was said to have been barred from British Academy membership by opposition...

ATR was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

RL was created a CBE for her services to literature; five years later she was elected a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature .

DDM was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

RR was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Following a British Arts Council Bursary in 1981, she received in 1983 a Popular Culture Association Award, and in 1990 a Sunday Times Award...

SB was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She was awarded an OBE in 1981 and made a Companion of Literature in 1994. In the early twenty-first century Counterpoint press of New...

DL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . She says she is proud of the way I have walked women into the centre of my fictions and plays and let them be...

When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...

KR declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess .

After the publication of Tobit Transplanted, SB was hurt when the book was not carried by the bookshops in Hong Kong (where she and her husband were now living). She articulated what she saw...

PL is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Chair of the Society of Authors . She was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours List at the end...