- Fiona MacCarthy
- Ian McDonald AA
- Ian McEwan CBE
- Roger McGough CBE
- Patrick McGrath
- Shena Mackay
- Rory MacLean
- Margaret MacMillan
- Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA
- Candia McWilliam
- Brenda Maddox
- Noel Malcolm FBA
- David Malouf
- Hilary Mantel CBE
- Patrick Marber
- Patrick Marnham
- Adam Mars-Jones
- Philip Marsden
- Rosalind Marshall
- Allan Massie
- Douglas Matthews FCLIP, Benson Medallist
- Glyn Maxwell
- Derwent May
- Geraldine McCaughrean
- Ernest Mehew
- Ved Mehta
- Edward Mendelson
- Jeffrey Meyers
- Stanley Middleton
- Mary Midgley
- Karl Miller
- Michael Millgate
- Pankaj Mishra
- Rohinton Mistry
- Julian Mitchell
- Deborah Moggach
- Caroline Moorehead OBE
- Geoffrey Moorhouse
- Edwin Morgan OBE
- Elaine Morgan
- Michael Morpurgo OBE
- Jan Morris CBE
- Blake Morrison
- Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale MC)
- Sir Andrew Motion
- Ferdinand Mount
- Paul Muldoon
- Alice Munro
- Richard Murphy
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.”