• 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

Robin Robertson – Year of election 2009

Robin Robertson has made a clean sweep of the Forward Prizes, winning Best First Collection, Best Single Poem and Best Collection, and has also won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His translations of the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer were extremely well-received, as was his version of Euripides’ Medea. His fourth poetry collection, The Wrecking Light, was published in February, and described by the Guardian as “a work of extraordinary visionary power, its music bleak and beautiful, spare and unsparing.” “If there were justice in the world,” this critic added, “it would win every prize going.”