- David Cairns
- Carmen Callil
- Sir David Cannadine FBA FRHistS
- John Carey FBA
- Peter Carey
- Sir Raymond Carr FBA FRHistS
- Miranda Carter
- Justin Cartwright
- David Caute
- Glen Cavaliero
- Hugh Cecil
- Aidan Chambers
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Tracy Chevalier
- Anne Chisholm
- Rupert Christiansen
- Kate Clanchy
- Gillian Clarke
- John Clay
- Morton N. Cohen
- Isabel Colegate
- Linda Colley CBE FBA FRHistS
- Tony Connor
- Robert Conquest CMG OBE
- P.J. Conrad
- Peter Conradi
- David Constantine
- Wendy Cope
- John Cornwell
- Jim Crace
- Kevin Crossley-Holland
- Tony Curtis
- Anthony Curtis
- Rachel Cusk
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.