- David Dabydeen
- William Dalrymple
- Richard Davenport-Hines
- Lionel Davidson
- Andrew Davies
- Paul Davies
- Stevie Davies
- Dick Davis
- Richard Dawkins FRS
- Louis de Bernières
- Alain de Botton
- Anita Desai, Benson Medallist
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Peter Dickinson
- David Dilks FRHistS
- Jenny Diski
- Maura Dooley
- Roddy Doyle
- Dame Margaret Drabble DBE
- Carol Ann Duffy CBE
- Maureen Duffy, Benson Medallist
- Ian Duhig
- Katherine Duncan-Jones
- Helen Dunmore
- Douglas Dunn OBE
- Jane Dunn
- Nell Dunn
- Geoff Dyer
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.