• 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

Fiona Sampson – Year of election 2010

Fiona Sampson, a poet and critic,has published seventeen books.  She has won the Newdigate Prize, been short-listed for the Forward single-poem and T.S. Eliot Prize received writers’ awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales, and, in 2009, received a Cholmondeley Award.  She is published in more than thirty languages, and as a translator she has been instrumental in making available some of the best poetry from Central and Balkan Europe, where she is well-known and respected as poet, editor and translator.  She describes her day-job, as editor of Poetry Review, as “advocating our best poetry – and not only what’s fashionable – to the general reader.”