Elected: 2025
Ingrid Persaud is a Trinidadian writer, artist and former legal academic who lives in London. Her prize-winning debut novel Love After Love, (Faber & Faber 2020) won the Costa First Novel Award (2020), Author’s Club First Novel Award (2020) and the Indie Book Award for Fiction (2021). Her short story The Sweet Sop also won the BBC National Short Story Award (2018) and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2017). Her most recent work, The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh (Faber & Faber) was published in April 2024. Persaud is Writer in Residence at University of the West Indies, Trinidad campus, 2025.
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.
