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Ameena
Hussein

2023 Commonwealth

Short Story Prize Judge

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Amit
Varma

The Only Two-Time

Winner of the Bastiat Prize

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Andrew
Sean Greer​

2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Anne​
Buist

‘Winner of the 2020 Victorian

Premier’s Literary Award

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Arati ​
Kumar-Rao

Named one of BBC’s 100 Influential

and Inspiring Women, 2023

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Ashok​
Ferrey

Winner of the Gratiaen Prize (2021)

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Dinara​
Punchihewa

Graeme​
Simsion

Jerry​
Pinto

Josephine​
Quinn

Exemplary Scholar of

Ancient History

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Kehinde​
Fadipe

Kiran​
Desai

“A briliant observer of the 

complexities of modern life”

-New Yorker

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Lal​
Medawattegedara

2012 Gratiaen Prize Winner 

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Malinda​
Seneviratne

Manu
Pillai

Max
Czollek

Molly
Roden Winter

Naseeruddin
Shah

Neil
MacGregor

“A national treasure that 

must never be exported”

-The Guardian

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Pranay
Lal

Pramod
Kumar

Ramya
Jirasinghe

Ratna
Pathak Shah

Razeen
Sally

Rehan
Mudannayake

Shawn
Otto

Shrayana
Bhattacharya

Times of India AutHer

Prize Winner (2022)

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Sujit
Sivasundaram

Sukanya
Wignaraja

Suli
Breaks

An Expressive Wordsmith

Inspiring Minds Worldwide

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Sunela
Jayewardene

William
Dalrymple

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