• Lawrence Sail
  • Giles St Aubyn LVO
  • William St Clair FBA
  • Norman St John-Stevas (Lord St John of Fawsley)
  • Fiona Sampson
  • J.J. Scarisbrick
  • 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
  • Jo Shapcott
  • Norman Sherry
  • Alan Sillitoe
  • Posy Simmonds MBE
  • Helen Simpson
  • Andrew Sinclair
  • Clive Sinclair
  • Iain Sinclair
  • Robert Skidelsky (Lord Skidelsky of Tilton FRHistS)
  • Ali Smith
  • Godfrey Smith
  • Lacey Baldwin Smith FRHistS
  • Zadie Smith
  • Mary Soames (Lady Soames DBE)
  • Ahdaf Soueif
  • Frances Spalding CBE
  • Francis Spufford
  • Hilary Spurling CBE
  • John Spurling
  • Tom Stacey
  • Jon Stallworthy FBA
  • Martin Stannard
  • C.K. Stead ONZ CBE
  • George Steiner FBA
  • Rory Stewart
  • Stanley Stewart
  • Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE C Lit
  • Sir Roy Strong FSA
  • Kate Summerscale
  • Virginia Surtees
  • John Sutherland
  • Graham Swift
  • George Szirtes

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.”