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Welsh, Louise

Louise Welsh

Elected: 2018

Year of birth: 1965

Louise Welsh is a fiction writer and librettist. She has written nine novels, most recently Plague Times Trilogy, a series of books exploring a contemporary pandemic. She has written many short stories and is editor of Ghost: One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On. Louise has collaborated on four operas with the composer Stuart MacRae. Her libretto for Ghost Patrol was shortlisted for an Olivier Award and the opera The Devil Inside was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘The Bottle Imp’.

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Fellowship Election Process​

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.