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Adelaide Writers’ Week – in pictures

International authors from Thomas Keneally to Madeleine Thien and Tom Holland have been speaking and debating at Adelaide's Writers' Week, where they were photographed by Alicia Canter
  
  


Writers' party: Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark whose most recent novel Daughters of Mars is a story of nurses in the first world war Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Chika Unigwe, Nigerian writer based in Belgian
Chika Unigwe, Nigerian writer based in Belgium whose novel On Black Sisters' Street tells of African women working in Antwerp's red light district Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Australian poet John Tranter
Australian poet John Tranter. His most recent collections include the prize-winning Starlight: 150 poems and Urban Myths: 210 poems, new and selected Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Australian writer Peter Goldsworthy
Australian writer, opera librettist and doctor Peter Goldsworthy, who is also chair of Adelaide Writers' Week Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Melbourne-based poet L. K. Holt
Melbourne-based poet L. K. Holt, whose collections include Patience, Mutiny and Man, Wolf, Man Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper
Literary critic Geordie Williamson, author of The Burning Library about the death of Oz-lit Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Graphic illustrator Dan McGuiness
Graphic illustrator Dan McGuiness, a rising star from Adelaide Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Australian author Peter Robb
Peter Robb, the Australian author of the Caravaggio biography, M and a new collection of his work going back 35 years, Lives Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Isobelle Carmody, Australian writer of science fiction and fantasy
Isobelle Carmody, Australian writer for young adults whose work includes The Obernewtyn Chronicles Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Karen Lord, author of Redemption in Indigo
Karen Lord, a rising star of speculative fiction whose novels include Redemption in Indigo and The Best of all Possible Worlds Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Robin de Crespigny, author of The People Smuggler
Robin de Crespigny, Sydney filmmaker and co-author of The People Smuggler, the story of the 'Iraqi Schindler' Ali Al Jenabi Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman, scourge of the self-help community and author of the Guardian column This Column Will Save Your Life Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Parker Bilal
British-Sudanese novelist Jamal Mahjoub who also writes detective fiction as Parker Bilal Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
Writers' party: Madeline Thies
Canadian-born novelist Madeleine Thien, whose novel Dogs at the Perimeter tells the story of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian
 

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