- Lawrence Sail
- Giles St Aubyn LVO
- William St Clair FBA
- Norman St John-Stevas (Lord St John of Fawsley)
- Fiona Sampson
- J.J. Scarisbrick FRHistS
- Ann Schlee
- Michael Schmidt
- The Rev Professor M.A. Screech FBA
- Roger Scruton FBA
- Peter Scupham
- Simon Sebag-Montefiore
- Elisa Segrave
- Richard Sennett
- Vikram Seth CBE
- Miranda Seymour
- Sir Peter Shaffer CBE
- Nicholas Shakespeare
- Kamila Shamsie
- Jo Shapcott
- Norman Sherry
- Elaine Showalter
- Posy Simmonds MBE
- Helen Simpson
- Andrew Sinclair
- Clive Sinclair
- Iain Sinclair
- Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton FBA FRHistS)
- Ali Smith
- Godfrey Smith
- Lacey Baldwin Smith FRHistS
- Zadie Smith
- Mary Soames (Baroness Soames LG)
- Ahdaf Soueif
- Frances Spalding CBE
- Francis Spufford
- Hilary Spurling CBE
- John Spurling
- Tom Stacey
- Jon Stallworthy FBA
- Martin Stannard
- Edward St Aubyn
- C.K. Stead ONZ CBE
- George Steiner FBA
- Rory Stewart OBE MP
- Stanley Stewart
- Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit
- Sir Roy Strong FSA
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- Graham Swift
- George Szirtes
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.”