Elected: 2026
Roger Lewis was born in South Wales in 1960. Educated at Bassaleg Comprehensive, St Andrews University and Magdalen College, Oxford, Lewis won the Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize, Matthew Arnold Essay Prize and Chancellor’s English Essay Prize. Lewis was made a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford in 1984. He mved to Normandy in 1991 to complete The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, subsequently filmed by HBO and has been Chief book critic of the Daily Mail since 2009. He now divides his time between homes in Bad Ischl, Austria, and Castelbottaccio, Italy. He is married to Anna Lewis, Principal, Child Psychology Services, East Sussex.
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.
