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Steven Gale (International)
Steven Gale is an arts project manager and consultant based in London. He has worked at theatres in England and Scotland, and taught at universities in Ireland and the United States. He was assistant artistic director at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and assistant director to the renowned Spanish director Calixto Bieito on two acclaimed theatre productions for the Edinburgh International Festival, ‘Life is a Dream’ and ‘Barbaric Comedies’, which were presented in Edinburgh, Dublin, London, Barcelona and New York. |
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Charlie Garber (Australian)
Charlie Garber is an actor and writer. He can be seen later this year at Belvoir Street Theatre. He is one-third of theatre-making whole, Pig Island. He has recently begun a weekly radio show on FBi Radio with Nick Coyle and Claudia O'Doherty, the second- and third-thirds. |
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Virginia Gay (Australian)
Virginia Gay graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2005 then pretended to be a nurse for four years on Channel Seven’s ‘All Saints’. Following that, she pretended to be Julia Gillard and Penny Wong for several months in the 2009 STC Wharf Revue ‘Pennies From Kevin’. She is now starring in a new comedy/drama for the Seven network, ‘Winners and Losers’, where she pretends to know a lot about high finance. She has just had a sell-out performance of her one-woman cabaret ‘Dirty Pretty Songs’ at the Spiegletent in Melbourne. |
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Rick Gekoski (International)
Dr Rick Gekoski is one of the world’s leading bookmen: a writer, rare-book dealer, broadcaster and academic. An American who went to England in 1966, he is now a dual UK/US citizen. After an academic career at Oxford and Warwick Universities, he started his business dealing in rare books and manuscripts. His own books include ‘Tolkien’s Gown and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books’ and ‘Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir’. Rick broadcasts regularly and teaches creative writing. Supported by Man Booker International. |
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Sulari Gentill (Australian)
Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. ‘Chasing Odysseus’ is Sulari’s first young-adult novel, coming hot on the heels of her acclaimed debut adult historical crime novel, ‘A Few Right Thinking Men’, which was ‘The Age’s Pick of the Week and received many other glowing reviews. It will be followed by the sequel, ‘A Decline in Prophets’. |
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Paul Gilding (Australian)
Paul Gilding is an independent writer, advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability. He has served as CEO of a range of innovative NGOs and companies including Greenpeace International, Ecos Corporation and Easy Being Green. He has also helped to establish and has served on the board of a number of new NGOs including Inspire Foundation, the Australian Business Community Network and Climate Coolers. ‘The Great Disruption’ is his first book. |
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Fiona Giles (Australian)
Fiona Giles is a senior lecturer in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Her publications include journalism, edited collections and academic work on gender and the body, particularly female sexuality. Her book, 'Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts', was published in 2003. |
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AA Gill (International)
AA Gill was born in Edinburgh. He is the TV and restaurant critic for ‘The Sunday Times’ and is a contributing editor to ‘GQ’ magazine, ‘Vanity Fair’ and ‘Australian Gourmet Traveller’. His books include two novels, ‘Sap Rising’ and ‘Starcrossed’, two travel books, ‘AA Gill Is Away’ and ‘Previous Convictions’, as well as ‘The Angry Island’ and ‘Paper View’. He lives in London and spends much of his year travelling. |
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Ross Gittins (Australian)
Ross Gittins is the economics editor of ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ and an economic columnist for ‘The Age’ and ‘The West Australian’. He is a winner of the Citibank Pan Asia award for excellence in financial journalism and has been a Nuffield Press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a journalist-in-residence at the department of economics at the University of Melbourne. Ross is a frequent commentator on economic issues. His latest book is ‘The Happy Economist’. |
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James Gleick (International)
James Gleick is an author, journalist and biographer whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. His most recent book, ‘The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood’, is being hailed as his crowning work. Gleick is also the author of the bestselling books ‘Chaos’, ‘Genius’, ‘Faster’ and a biography of Isaac Newton. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and have been translated into more than 20 languages. James divides his time between New York City and Florida. |
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Morris Gleitzman (Australian)
Morris Gleitzman has been a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, student, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter before he became one of Australia's most successful children’s authors. In 2010, Morris completed the remarkable and critically acclaimed trilogy, ‘Once’, ‘Then’ and ‘Now’. Over his career, Morris has been recognised by the CBCA, various Children's Choice awards around the country and twice shortlisted for ‘The Guardian’ Prize for Children's Fiction. Morris's latest novel will be published in May 2011. |
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Richard Glover (Australian)
Richard Glover is the author of 11 books, including ‘Why Men Are Necessary’ and ‘The Mud House’. He presents the ‘Drive’ show on 702 ABC Radio Sydney and his popular column has been published in ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ for more than 20 years. He is also the author of ‘Desperate Husbands’, ‘In Bed with Jocasta’ and ‘The Dag's Dictionary’. |
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Linda Godfrey (Australian)
Linda Godfrey lives in Wollongong, close to the ocean. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in ‘Cordite’, the UTS writers’ anthology ‘Nine Tenths Below’ and audio anthologies by River Road Press. She was selected for the Varuna Longlines Program and an Australian Society of Authors mentorship. |
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Paul Goldman (Australian)
Paul Goldman was expelled from film school in the ‘80s. He has gone on to direct over 200 music videos, 400 television commercials, a couple of documentaries and three feature films including ‘Australian RULES’ and ‘Suburban MAYHEM’. 20 years ago he began collecting photography books – he now has over 2,000 of them. Paul is currently writing his next feature film, as well as directing commercials and television. |
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Libbi Gorr (Australian)
Libbi Gorr is a broadcaster, writer and performer who has long delighted audiences with her fearless take on social issues – most will remember Libbi’s alter ego, Elle McFeast. Libbi has been a regular guest presenter on ABC Radio with a selection of national and local news and entertainment programs. She is married and has two small children. Her latest book is ‘The A to Z of Mummy Manners’. |
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Marie-Pierre Gracedieu (International )
Marie-Pierre Gracedieu is the editorial director of the Cosmopolite, a literary series owned by French publisher Stock. She has been working in the publishing industry for 10 years, previously building a list of popular essays for four years for a small independent press company called ALVIK. Cosmopolite's current backlist includes Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates and others. |
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Dave Graney (Australian)
Dave Graney is an ARIA Award-winning, gold record-wearing, bad-ass musician with a recording output comprising roughly 24 albums in a career spanning 30 years. These albums include ‘The Moodists’, ‘The Coral Snakes’, ‘The White Buffaloes’ and ‘Lurid Yellow Mist’. ‘1001 Australian Nights’ is his first book. |
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Robert Gray (Australian)
Robert Gray is one of Australia's best-known poets. His family memoir, 'The Land I Came Through Last', has been published to critical acclaim. |
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AC Grayling (International)
AC Grayling is professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a multi-talented author. He has been a regular contributor to ‘The Times’, the ‘Financial Times’, ‘The Observer’, the ‘Independent on Sunday’, ‘The Economist’, ‘The Literary Review’, ‘New Statesman’ and ‘Prospect’, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programs. His books include ‘Thinking of Answers’, ‘Liberty in the Age of Terror’, ‘Descartes’, ‘Toward the Light of Liberty’ and ‘Among The Dead Cities’. ‘The Good Book’ is his latest work. |
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Ross Grayson Bell (Australian)
Ross Grayson Bell created his own production company in Los Angeles in 1993 and has produced ‘Fight Club’ and executive produced ‘Under Suspicion’. As a screenwriter, his adaptation of Tom Spanbauer's novel ‘The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon’ landed him on the British List of Best Unproduced Screenplays. He adapted Mark Leech's autobiography, ‘A Product of the System’, for Peter Gabriel's Real World Pictures, and the story of Barry Cox, ‘I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in Perfect Cantonese’, for BBC Films. |
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John M. Green (Australian)
John M. Green is the author of the hot-selling financial thriller ‘Nowhere Man’. His next book, the gripping political thriller ‘Born to Run’, will be released later this year. After 30 years in executive life, it dawned on John that what got him up in the morning was writing, not his day job - so he quit the day job. As well as writing novels, John is a respected businessman and corporate commentator. He lives in Sydney with his wife, sculptor Jenny Green. |
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Leah Greengarten (Australian)
Leah Greengarten is the NSW director of Australian Poetry Ltd, the peak body for poetry in Australia. Prior to this, she worked as a features writer in Paris, London and Sydney. Her articles have appeared in ‘The New York Times’, ‘The International Herald Tribune’, ‘The Sunday Times Travel’ magazine, and various Australian publications. |
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Barbara Gunnell (International)
Barbara Gunnell is a writer and editor based in London. She is former assistant editor of ‘The Independent on Sunday’, former comment editor of ‘The Observer’ and former associate editor of ‘The New Statesman’. She is a past president of the National Union of Journalists, a regular contributor to ‘The Observer’ and an associate of the think-tank Demos. Her essay on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks appears in ‘Griffith REVIEW 32: Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas’. |
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Bruce Guthrie (Australian)
Bruce Guthrie began his media career as a copyboy at ‘The Herald’ in Melbourne in 1972. He worked for ‘The Herald’ and the ‘Weekly Times’, based in LA, before returning to Australia as deputy editor of ‘The Herald’. He has since edited ‘The Sunday Age’, ‘The Age’, ‘People’ magazine, ‘Who Weekly’ and ‘The Weekend Australian Magazine’. He was appointed editor-in-chief of the ‘Herald Sun’, Australia's biggest selling daily newspaper, in February 2007, a role he filled until his dramatic and unexpected exit in November 2008. |
