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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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Bhavani​
Fonseka

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

Mihiri
Wikramanayake

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

Rehana
Thowfeek

Ruwanthie
de Chickera

Savithri
Rodrigo

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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