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#  Ankhi Mukherjee elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 

 





June 30, 2026

 

 

We are delighted to share with the IWL community that our faculty member, Professor Ankhi Mukherjee from the University of Oxford, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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 The citation was read by the Turkish-British novelist Elif Shafak.

[*From the official statement of the RSL:*](https://rsliterature.org/rsl-announces-2026-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/)

At the evening’s event, new Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected in 2026 signed their names in the RSL roll book using a pen from its permanent collection. The RSL’s pens are from some of the most historically influential UK writers including Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Andrea Levy, Jean Rhys and Arnold Wesker. The RSL Roll Book dates back to 1825, five years after the founding of the charity in 1820, and features the signature of Fellows and Honorary Fellows elected over the past 200 years.

Ankhi Mukherjee signed with T.S. Eliot's pen.



 

 

 



 

 

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