Royal Society of Literature celebrates Angus Wilson

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) and partners Bath Spa University hosted an event on Monday 25 November celebrating the centenary of Sir Angus Wilson KBE. Angus Wilson, who matriculated at Merton in 1932, was a novelist and short story writer, and according to Malcolm Bradbury, "one of Britain's greatest late-twentieth-century writers". At the discussion, Ian McEwan - one of the first students on the Creative Writing MA course at the University of East Anglia which Wilson & Bradbury established - was joined by Wilson's biographer, the novelist Margaret Drabble, and the literary journalist Edmund Gordon.

Wilson was knighted in 1980, and was RSL President from 1983 to 1988. He died in 1991. The event was held at the Courtauld Institute of Art.