Elected: 1999
Year of birth: 1946
Timberlake Wertenbaker is a British playwright also known for her translations and adaptations of Sophocles, Marivaux, Racine and Tolstoy. She has received many awards for her plays, including the Laurence Olivier, Writers’ Guild, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, New York Drama Critics and the Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She is the Chair in playwriting at the University of East Anglia and on the advisory council of RADA.
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.
