- Tessa Hadley
- John Haffenden FBA
- William Hague MP
- John Halperin
- Georgina Hammick
- Christopher Hampton CBE
- Barbara Hardy FBA
- Sir David Hare
- Claire Harman
- Richard Harries (The Rt Rev Lord Harries of Pentregarth)
- Robert Harris
- Wilson Harris
- Tony Harrison
- David Harsent
- Sir Ronald Harwood CBE, Vice-President
- Sir Max Hastings
- Lady Selina Hastings
- Roy Hattersley (Lord Hattersley)
- Cameron Hazlehurst
- Shirley Hazzard
- Tim Heald
- Denis Healey (Lord Healey CH MBE)
- Philip Hensher
- Dominic Hibberd
- Sir Geoffrey Hill
- Reginald Hill
- Rosemary Hill
- Tobias Hill
- Bevis Hillier
- Tim Hilton
- Barry Hines
- Eric Hobsbawm CH FBA
- Mary Hocking
- Eva Hoffman
- Richard Hoggart
- Ursula Holden
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Richard Holmes OBE FBA
- Sir Michael Holroyd CBE C Lit FRHistS, President
- Park Honan
- Hugh Honour FBA
- Christopher Hope
- Nick Hornby
- Sir Alistair Horne CBE
- Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE
- Philip Howard
- Kathryn Hughes FRHistS
- Shirley Hughes OBE
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Roland Huntford
- Aamer Hussein
- Angela Huth
- Samuel Hynes
Rohinton Mistry – Year of election 2009
Rohinton Mistry’s first short stories were published in Canada in 1983,
eight years after he moved there from India, and he writes about his
native Bombay with the distilled concentration of the exile. His first
collection, Tales from Firozsha Baag, appeared in 1987, since when he has published three novels, including A Fine Balance,
which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Overall Winner, 1996), and
the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. When
the book was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2001 it sold an extra
500,000 copies.
Amanda Craig, writing in the Literary Review, said of A Fine Balance:
“This is a work of genius. I cannot begin to review it without saying
so. It should be read by everyone who loves books, win every prize,
make its author a millionaire.”