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A Year in the Life of the Royal Society of Literature Our Aims A year in the life of The Royal Society of Literature Our aims 1. To honour and encourage great writers Fellowship see page 4 Awards and prizes 5 2. To engage people in literature Membership 6 Public events 7 “ 75% of adults in Britain have read In the classroom 8 something in the last six months Audience survey 9 3. To act as a voice for the value of literature which they consider to be literature” Literature in Britain Today report 10 #LiteratureMatters Spreading the word 11 Literature in Britain Today report, published 1 March 2017 4. To be a responsible and effective organisation Governance 12 Achievements 13 Finance 14 k you Than 15 PSON M OPE OPE P P N N N A A DRI JOLLY THO JOLLY ADRI A A. L. Kennedy FRSL T. S. Eliot Memorial Cover photo: RSL event speaks at European Reading, and Colin on The Good Immigrant at Literature Night, Young Thubron FRSL in the British Library, with People’s Laureate for conversation at L-R Nikesh Shukla, Eva London Caleb Femi the On Memory Hoffman FRSL, Vahni reads at the Annual event. Capildeo, Mike Phillips FRSL and Razia Iqbal. Photo: Adrian Pope. 2 A year in review A year in figures In 2016, we… “ Long may literature matter. It is one of “ The Society is the touchstones flourishing.” of our humanity.” …visited 11 state schools in …began live-streaming our events In this first full year under our new Director Tim Early last spring as I began to think my way into disadvantaged communities, to libraries, reaching new audiences Robertson, the Society is flourishing. We have my role as Chair of this august Society, I scanned working with 807 students from Exeter to York increased and diversified our programme of the list of Fellows and was struck by its sheer events (with a growing number outside London), wealth and variety of talent. The names evoked continued our vigorous sponsorship of writers knowledge, a complexity of ways of seeing and and our outreach to disadvantaged schools, while being, hours of reading pleasure. How arid both our intensifying our presence online. At the same public and private spheres would be without the time we have streamlined the work of our Council writing, the imaginative verve here represented. by the creation of specialised sub-committees. Literature matters. It matters even more in these times of local and global uncertainty. In this, the final year of my Presidency, I am especially pleased that Dame Marina Warner will This was the theme that emerged to unify the be succeeding me. A renowned scholar, historian RSL’s many activities, as I began working with our and novelist – and the first female President splendid Council, President, and the compact and …held a public vote for the Nation’s …elected 13 distinguished writers as of the Society – she will help guide it to its energetic RSL staff team. If the ‘advancement Favourite Second Novel, with Pride Fellows anticipated two-hundredth birthday in 2020. of literature’ is the primary task with which our and Prejudice topping a shortlist of Charter charges us – one our audience surveys 140 novels We are saddened, as in other years, by the death whole-heartedly support – then exploring and of distinguished Fellows, who in 2016-17 include championing the many ways in which literature Richard Adams, Prof. Bernard Bergonzi, Sir matters is key to that task. It is under this banner Christopher Bland, Helen Dunmore, Tim Heald, that we sail into our bicentenary in 2020: new Hugh Honour, Jeremy Lewis, Venetia Newall, awards for writers, for schools, and a bonanza Gerard Noel, Prof. Norman Sherry, Lord Thomas of of lectures. Swynnerton and William Trevor. Meanwhile, in this last year, we have carried out As an independent charity, we are indebted to a nationwide opinion poll ‘Literature in Britain a vital range of donors and Patrons, including Today’ and added two sparkling new prizes to our many Fellows and Members. We would not exist list. Our many events, marked by passion, wit and …presented 25 public events to a …welcomed 346 new Members without you. In a year of widespread and often an array of voices from here and abroad, are now total live audience of 4,622 people disturbing change, our advocacy of literature partnered with the British Library, and take place (and literacy) has never been more necessary, in its spacious Knowledge Centre. They also travel and we continue to rely gratefully on your the country. Long may literature matter. It is one of enthusiasm and patronage. the touchstones of our humanity. Y 2017 A 6 – M RY 201 Lisa Appignanesi OBE FRSL A NU Colin Thubron CBE FRSL Chair A J President M …presented 13 awards and grants …received 1,001 responses to our IS FRO worth £56,000 survey of Fellows, Members and Data e-newsletter subscribers 2 3 Aim 1: To honour and encourage great writers Fellowship Awards and prizes Election as a Fellow of the RSL is a uniquely prestigious honour, because We present a range of awards and prizes to reward literary merit and the decision is made by other distinguished writers. Around fifteen new encourage writers at all stages of their careers, from the RSL Ondaatje Fellows are elected by secret ballot each year, and must be nominated Prize for a new work evoking the spirit of a place, to the RSL V.S. Pritchett and seconded by existing Fellows. Newly elected Fellows are introduced Memorial Prize for an unpublished short story. In 2017, we welcome at our annual Summer Party and are invited to sign their names in our the RSL Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction (following the last RSL historic Roll Book using either T.S. Eliot’s or Byron’s pen. Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction in 2016), and the RSL Encore Award for best second novel. In 2016, the Tahmima Anam Germaine Greer Ian Rankin OBE following Sir Christopher Bland Tanika Gupta MBE James Runcie writers were Helen Castor Sarah Hall Sathnam Sanghera made Fellows Artemis Cooper Tom Holland Simon Schama CBE of the RSL: Paul Gilroy Val McDermid Meera Syal CBE ON OPE P amm N N A E IC HIL G HIL R ADRI P SER SER A R F Left: Francis Spufford 2016-17 AWard AND PriZE WiNNers “ The Jerwood Award was a very generous FRSL winner of the award which bought me more precious “ I was genuinely moved when I heard I’d “ I’ve never been one for joining-in. I only RSL Ondaatje Prize Benson Medal time to write my book and make it the been elected a Fellow of the RSL. Mostly managed a few months as a member of a 2017. Right: L-R Afua Christopher MacLehose CBE best it can be. But I cannot quantify the the act of writing feels like shouting political party, and only a year or two as Hirsch, Damian Le boost it gave my confidence as a first in a dark cave; to be honoured in this a subscriber to a London members’ club. Bas and Violet Moller, Brookleaze Grants time author, and the sense that the Below: Fellows way by other writers is the ultimate But accepting membership of a family that recipients of 2016 RSL Chris Monks sometimes lonely and challenging task gathered at the acknowledgement that my work does includes most of my favourite living writers Jerwood Awards. Camilla Whitehill of writing something like this resonates 2016 Annual General speak to people.” is irresistible. Humbled and grateful.’ with others. It’s boosted my sense of Meeting. Val McDermid FRSL Sathnam Sanghera FRSL RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction purpose and focus in ways for which I Afua Hirsch will always be grateful.’ Damian Le Bas Afua Hirsch, recipient of a 2016 RSL Violet Moller Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction RSL Ondaatje Prize “ Place has always been central to my Francis Spufford FRSL for Golden Hill work, so I’m delighted to win this prize of (Faber) all prizes. The 18th century New York of my book had to be conjured from maps V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and analogies and a few contemporary Fiona Marshall (winner) pictures, supported by walks round and Clare Colvin (shortlist) round Lower Manhattan with my eyes Jasmine Donahaye (shortlist) fixed on the pavements rather than the Kenneth Steven (shortlist) skyscrapers. It’s a joy to find that what I built in my head seems solid enough for RSL Encore Award others to walk in, in their imaginations.’ Ian McGuire for The North Water Francis Spufford FRSL, winner of the (Scribner) 2017 RSL Ondaatje Prize OPE P N N A ADRI 4 5 Aim 2: To engage people in literature Membership Public events Our membership is open to everyone, and offers the joys and We encourage the appreciation and exploration of literature with two benefits of a literary festival and book club rolled into one, all year seasons of public events each year, featuring discussions and talks round. Members enjoy free entry and discounted guest tickets to on a range of literary subjects. Events in the past year have included our acclaimed annual programme of events, access to Members- Rowan Williams on Dostoevsky; Posy Simmonds on graphic fiction; Vahni only book groups, exclusive partner offers, and a complimentary Capildeo, Eva Hoffman, Mike Phillips and Nikesh Shukla on the literature subscription to the twice-yearly RSL Review magazine. of immigration; and Alan Ayckbourn on playwriting. Right: Audience at The Clockwise from top: Good Immigrant. Mike Phillips FRSL Below: Evie Ioannidi speaks at The Good talking to Vahni Immigrant, Carol Ann Capildeo, a panellist Duffy FRSL reads at at The Good Immigrant the Annual T.
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