• 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

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.”