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MEDIA RELEASE COURTESY OF: Melbourne Writers Festival
The Melbourne Writers Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2010. For 10 days, the Festival will showcase the best and brightest in the literary world, paying homage to its beginning and looking forward to how we engage with the written word from 27 August to 5 September at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Confirmed international guests include:
Jake Adelstein, US
Elif Batuman, US
Cory Doctorow, UK
RJ Ellory, UK
Marcelo Gleiser, US
Ma Jian, China
Catherine Lim, Singapore
James McNeish, NZ/UK
Nadifa Mohamed, UK
James P Othmer, US
Alastair Reynolds, UK
Nicolas Shakespeare, UK
Mohezin Tejani, Thailand
Louise Welsh, UK
Tash Aw, UK
Peter Beinart, US,
Norman Doidge MD, US
Jonathan Fenby, UK/China
Anjum Hasan, India
Simon Kernick, UK
Peter Manseau, US
China Mieville, UK
Tiffany Murray, UK
DBC Pierre, UK
Emili Rosales, Spain
William Shawcross, UK
Barbara Trapido, UK
Francis Wheen, UK
Joe Bageant, US
Fethiye Cetin, Turkey
Louise Doughty, UK
Jostein Gaarder, Norway
Peter James, UK
August Kleinzahler, US
Val McDermid, UK
Pankaj Mishra, India
Loretta Napoleoni, Italy
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, UK
Jan Schaffer, US
Miguel Syjuco, Canada
Jon Watts, UK/China
Simon Winchester, UK
Melbourne Writers Festival, 27 August to 5 September 2010 at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Bookings: Online or call the MWF box office: 9999 1199
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