Melbourne Writers Festival starts this week!

Profiles:

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  Abdi Aden

  Abdi Aden grew up in Mogadishu until the outbreak of Somalia’s devastating civil war separated him from his family

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  Alice Pung OAM

  Alice Pung OAM is an award-winning author, journalist, lawyer and educator from Melbourne. Her non-fiction books Unpolished Gem, Her

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  Private: Anna Krien

  Anna Krien is the author of Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport, Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania’s Forests

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  Benjamin Law

  Benjamin Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster. He’s the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2013), the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 (2017)

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  Celeste Liddle

  Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte woman, an opinion writer, a trade unionist and public speaker. Celeste started her blog

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  Clare Bowditch

  Clare Bowditch is a best-selling ARIA Award winning musician (Best Female), Logie Nominated actor (for TV Show Offspring), Best-Selling

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  Private: Clementine Ford

  Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is the author of two books, Fight

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  David Astle

  David Astle is a man of words. Whether he’s lacing them into fiendish crosswords for The Age and Sydney Morning

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  Dr Susan Carland

  Dr Susan Carland is an academic, author, and social commentator. She has a PhD from Monash University’s School of

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  George Megalogenis

  George Megalogenis is one of Australia’s leading political and economic thinkers. He is an author and journalist with four

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  Private: Jamila Rizvi

  Jamila Rizvi is an author, presenter and political commentator. She is Editor-at-Large for the Nine Network’s Future Women platform and hosts

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  Judy Horacek

  Judy Horacek is an award winning Australian cartoonist, children’s book illustrator and writer, known for her wonderful sense of

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  Sally Warhaft

  Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer and the host of the Wheeler Centre’s live journalism series,

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  Sami Shah

  Sami Shah is a multi-award winning writer, comedian and former co-host of Breakfast on ABC Radio Melbourne.  He’s been profiled

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  Sean Dooley

  Sean Dooley is an Australian writer, comedian, conservationist and birdwatcher. He is the senior public relations advisor for BirdLife

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  Sian Prior

  Sian Prior is probably best known as an ABC radio presenter, a columnist and critic for The Age, and

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  Private: Tracey Spicer

  Tracey Spicer AM BBus(Comm) GAICD is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national

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