Honorary Members and Fellows
Honorary Members
Distinguished foreign scholars nominated by the Executive Council and elected by the Delegate Assembly, subject to ratification by a mail ballot of the membership. The roll dates from 13 July 1893. The date following each name indicates year of election. View the list of past honorary members.
Lina Bolzoni, 2004
Ottmar Ette, 2014
Sukehiro Hirakawa, 1990
Luce Irigaray, 1987
Julia Kristeva, 1986
Albrecht Schöne, 1984
Sigrid Weigel, 1999
Honorary Fellows
Distinguished men and women of letters of any nationality nominated by the Executive Council and elected by the Delegate Assembly, subject to ratification by a mail ballot of the membership. The roll dates from 27 December 1959. The date following each name indicates year of election. View the list of past honorary fellows.
César Aira, 2019
Margaret Atwood, 1997
Bei Dao, 2021
Amit Chaudhuri, 2020
Caryl Churchill, 1998
J. M. Coetzee, 1989
Samuel R. Delany, 2019
Diamela Eltit, 1998
Louise Erdrich, 2006
Richard Flanagan, 2020
Griselda Gambaro, 2000
Amitav Ghosh, 2014
Peter Handke, 1986
Gish Jen, 2019
Adrienne Kennedy, 2005
Elias Khoury, 2019
Mo Yan, 2010
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1989
Cees Nooteboom, 1996
M. NourbeSe Philip, 2020
Elena Poniatowska, 1998
Claudia Rankine, 2019
Reina María Rodríguez, 2021
Jacques Roubaud, 2006
Wole Soyinka, 1985
Tom Stoppard, 1985
Luis Valdez, 2020
Mario Vargas Llosa, 1984
Albert Wendt, 2009