- Dannie Abse CBE
- Chinua Achebe
- Peter Ackroyd CBE
- Richard Adams
- Donald Adamson JP FSA FRHistS
- Fleur Adcock OBE
- Diran Adebayo
- John Agard
- Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
- Brian Aldiss OBE
- Keith Alldritt
- Fergus Allen CB
- David Almond
- Martin Amis
- Mark Amory
- Carole Angier
- The Marquess of Anglesey DL FSA FRHistS Hon FRIBA
- John Arden
- Simon Armitage
- Karen Armstrong
- Bruce Arnold OBE
- Geoffrey Ashe
- Michael Asher
- Rosemary Ashton OBE FBA
- Nadeem Aslam
- Diana Athill OBE
- Kate Atkinson
- Margaret Atwood
Adam Foulds – Year of election 2010
Adam Foulds is a poet and novelist who won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award following the 2007 publication of his first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times. The Broken Word (2008), a remarkable narrative poem which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, won the Costa Poetry Award. His second novel, The Quickening Maze, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Foulds is noted for his extraordinary gift for language and his forensic imagination.