Elected: 2022
Playwright Hannah Khalil is the Resident Writer at Shakespeare’s Globe 2022. Her stage plays include The Fir Tree and Henry VIII (Globe), A Museum in Baghdad (RSC ) The Scar Test (Soho Theatre), Scenes from 68* Years (Arcola) and Interference (National Theatre of Scotland). Hannah has also written extensively for television and radio. She was the recipient of the Arab British Centre’s Award for Culture in 2017, and named the Heimbold Chair, Villanova University, Philadelphia 2021. She is a Creative Fellow of the Samuel Beckett Institute at the University of Reading 2021/22.
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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.
