- Mavis Gallant CC
- Jane Gardam OBE
- Philip Gardner
- Alan Garner OBE
- Timothy Garton Ash CMG
- Bamber Gascoigne
- Maggie Gee OBE, Vice-President
- Amitav Ghosh
- Sir Martin Gilbert CBE
- Sir David Gilmour Bt
- Mark Girouard FSA
- Lesley Glaister
- Victoria Glendinning CBE, Vice-President
- Julian Gloag
- Magdalen Goffin
- Nadine Gordimer, Benson Medallist
- Lyndall Gordon
- Warwick Gould
- Grey Gowrie (The Earl of Gowrie)
- A.C. Grayling
- Peter Green
- Lavinia Greenlaw
- John Gribbin
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Abdulrazak Gurnah
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.