The UK’s Royal Society of Literature announced its latest group of International Writers on Saturday, December 13, 2025.
The Royal Society of Literature was founded to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent” in the United Kingdom in 1820. One of its awards is its International Writers Award, which recognises the contribution of writers across the globe to literature for their lifetime contributions, starting in 2021. It celebrates the many ways in which literature can shape a future world. Some of the previous recipients have been Jamaica Kincaid, Alain Mabanckou, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Claudia Rankine, Maryse Condé, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Yaa Gyasi, Attica Locke, Scholastique Mukasonga, Nuruddin Farah, Marlon James, and Saidiya Hartman.
The newest International Writers were selected by a panel of Susan Bassnett, Kit Fan, Sunetra Gupta, Lucy Hannah, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Alberto Manguel, and Deirdre Osborne. The writers of African descent who made the list are;
- Dionne Brand
- Helon Habila
- Earl Lovelace
- Safiya Sinclair
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