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Elected: 2018
Sarah Perry’s first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2014. Her second, The Essex Serpent, was Waterstones Book of the Year 2016 and the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2017. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Encore Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Prize. Her third novel, Melmoth, will be published in October 2018.
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.
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.