• Richard Mabey
  • Fiona MacCarthy
  • Ian McDonald AA
  • Ian McEwan CBE
  • Robert Macfarlane
  • Roger McGough CBE
  • Patrick McGrath
  • Shena Mackay
  • Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA
  • Rory MacLean
  • Margaret MacMillan
  • Candia McWilliam
  • Brenda Maddox
  • Noel Malcolm FBA
  • David Malouf
  • Norman Manea
  • Alberto Manguel
  • Philip Mansel
  • 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
  • Ved Mehta
  • Edward Mendelson
  • Jeffrey Meyers
  • Mary Midgley
  • Karl Miller
  • Michael Millgate
  • Pankaj Mishra
  • Rohinton Mistry
  • Julian Mitchell
  • Deborah Moggach
  • Caroline Moorehead OBE
  • Geoffrey Moorhouse
  • Elaine Morgan
  • Michael Morpurgo OBE
  • Jan Morris CBE
  • Blake Morrison
  • Nicholas Mosley (Lord Ravensdale MC)
  • Sir Andrew Motion
  • Ferdinand Mount (Bt)
  • Paul Muldoon
  • Alice Munro
  • Richard Murphy

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.”