Elected: 2022
Fred D’Aguiar grew up in Guyana, returning to England in his teens. He is the author of five novels, including The Longest Memory, which won the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. His eighth poetry collection, Letters to America was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His numerous plays have been staged in the UK and broadcast on BBC radio. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading English with African and Caribbean Studies and is currently Professor of English at University of California Los Angeles. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 is his first non-fiction book.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
